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Everything Beautiful is Not Ruined

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Then
Ingrid traveled all over Europe with her opera star mother, Margot-Sophia. Life was beautiful and bright, and every day soared with music.
 
Now
Ingrid is on a summertime wilderness survival trek for at-risk teens: addicts, runaways, and her. She’s fighting to survive crushing humiliations, physical challenges that push her to her limits, and mind games that threaten to break her.
 
Then
When the curtain fell on Margot-Sophia’s singing career, they buried the past and settled into a small, painfully normal life. But Ingrid longed to let the music soar again. She wanted it so much that, for a while, nothing else mattered.
 
Now
Ingrid is never going to make it through this summer if she can’t figure out why she’s here, what happened to Margot-Sophia, and why the music really stopped.
© David Leyes
DANIELLE YOUNGE-ULLMAN is the author of Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award as well as the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Award and was the winner of the OLA White Pine Award. She is also the author of Lola Carlyle's 12-Step Romance and Falling Under (Plume). She lives in Toronto with her family. Follow her on Twitter @DanielleYUllman. View titles by Danielle Younge-Ullman
  • WINNER | 2018
    White Pine Award
  • SELECTION | 2018
    YALSA Best Books for Young Adults
  • SHORTLIST | 2018
    Amy Mathers Teen Book Award
  • SHORTLIST | 2018
    Green Mountain Book Award
  • SHORTLIST | 2018
    Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards
  • SHORTLIST | 2017
    Governor General’s Literary Award - Young People’s Literature - Text

About

Then
Ingrid traveled all over Europe with her opera star mother, Margot-Sophia. Life was beautiful and bright, and every day soared with music.
 
Now
Ingrid is on a summertime wilderness survival trek for at-risk teens: addicts, runaways, and her. She’s fighting to survive crushing humiliations, physical challenges that push her to her limits, and mind games that threaten to break her.
 
Then
When the curtain fell on Margot-Sophia’s singing career, they buried the past and settled into a small, painfully normal life. But Ingrid longed to let the music soar again. She wanted it so much that, for a while, nothing else mattered.
 
Now
Ingrid is never going to make it through this summer if she can’t figure out why she’s here, what happened to Margot-Sophia, and why the music really stopped.

Author

© David Leyes
DANIELLE YOUNGE-ULLMAN is the author of Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award as well as the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Award and was the winner of the OLA White Pine Award. She is also the author of Lola Carlyle's 12-Step Romance and Falling Under (Plume). She lives in Toronto with her family. Follow her on Twitter @DanielleYUllman. View titles by Danielle Younge-Ullman

Awards

  • WINNER | 2018
    White Pine Award
  • SELECTION | 2018
    YALSA Best Books for Young Adults
  • SHORTLIST | 2018
    Amy Mathers Teen Book Award
  • SHORTLIST | 2018
    Green Mountain Book Award
  • SHORTLIST | 2018
    Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards
  • SHORTLIST | 2017
    Governor General’s Literary Award - Young People’s Literature - Text

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