Dance on My Grave — Aidan Chambers

Amulet Books is the home of Aidan Chambers, �"one of young-adult literature’s greatest living writers.”*

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�"With profound respect for readers, Chambers again stretches the YA genre to its edges and beyond. . . . Ambitious, imperfect, challenging, and powerfully affecting.” � -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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In this revelatory, groundbreaking novel, the love of sixteen-year-old Hal Robinson for self-confident Barry Gorman is revealed through Hal’s own observations, press clippings, and the scattered notes of a social worker. These various perspectives contribute to an extraordinarily sensitive portrait of the intensity of first love. The Horn Book writes, �"The author is marvelously gifted at suggesting the ecstasy and insecurity that accompany new love� -- including its emotional and physical, social and spiritual aspects. A major strength of the book, the central conflict hinges not on the lovers being gay, but on their having two idiosyncratic and contradictory personalities.”