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Why We Broke Up

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By Daniel Handler

Illustrated by Maira Kalman

Read by Khristine Hvam

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On Sale
Dec 27, 2011
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781611135404

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  1. Audiobook CD (Unabridged)

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I’m telling you why we broke up, Ed. I’m writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened.

Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box of matches, a protractor, books, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings, a comb from a motel room, and every other item collected over the course of a giddy, intimate, heartbreaking relationship. Item after item is illustrated and accounted for, and then the box, like a girlfriend, will be dumped.

Genre:

  • Teen & Young Adult
  • Young Adult Fiction
  • Romance
  • Contemporary

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Daniel Handler

About the Author

Daniel Handler has written for grown-ups under his own name and for younger readers under the name Lemony Snicket. He was dumped at least three times in high school.

Maira Kalman, acclaimed artist and designer, has created many books for both grown-ups and children. Her heart was broken in high school by a boy who looked like Bob Dylan.

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Maira Kalman

About the Illustrator

Maira Kalman is a celebrated artist, designer, dancer, storyteller and the co-creator of Why We Broke Up, a Printz Honor award-winning title, and author of Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of John J. Harvey, and the illustrator of Kirsten Gillibrand’s New York Times bestseller Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote.

Her accomplishments are vast: She has published many books for children and adults, performed her work as an opera and as a dance, she has designed fabric, makeup colors and theatre sets.  She has a show upcoming at the Eric Carle Museum celebrating her work and is currently collaborating on a piece with Mikhail Baryshnikov. She currently lives in New York City.

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