From the #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars
Michael L. Printz Honor Book
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy–loving best friend riding shotgun—but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.
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Girls, Math, and a Road Trip An Abundance of Katherines is about many things: Heartbreak. Friends. Family. Math. Most importantly, it is about a young man who takes a road trip to find himself. The literal journey works well for the metaphorical one, of course, and is a familiar storytelling device. Author John Green has made it his own – or rather, Colin’s own.Colin Singleton used to be a prodigy. Used to be, because now he’s a recent high school graduate, and what means “gifted prodigy” at age 2 means simply…
smart and funny From third grade through his senior year of high school, Colin Singleton, child prodigy, has dated nineteen girls. All of them have been named Katherine (anagrammed in the rake; ie, her tank), and all of them have dumped him. Not for the same reasons, and not in the same way. Katherine XVIII dumped him in an email, for example. And K-19 dumped him immediately after graduation. Now, faced with a Katherine-less summer, Colin and his best friend, Hassan, decide to take a road trip. They are…
A quirky coming-of-age novel with an original plot! Since I’ve always been a fan of Young Adult and Juvenile books–love to read them, love to write them–I just had to see what all the fuss was about with author John Green’s coming-of-age novel. What sets it apart from others in the genre?I started reading and quickly found out: it’s an original concept, a laugh-out-loud funny story, complete with satire and an American road trip that’s unlike any road trip I ever took. I’m enamored with this book and Green’s main character, Colin…