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**WINNER of the ILA Young Adult Book Award!**
Get ready to die laughing: this is an outrageously funny ride through the last hours of a teenagers life as he searches for love, meaning, answers, and (just maybe) a way to live on.
Denton Littles Deathdate takes place in a world exactly like our own except that everyone knows the day on which they will die. For Denton, thats in just two daysthe day of his senior prom.
Despite his early deathdate, Denton has always wanted to live a normal life, but his final days are filled with dramatic firsts. First hangover. First sex. First love triangleas the first sex seems to have happened not with his adoring girlfriend, but with his best friends hostile sister. (Though hes not totally suresee, first hangover.) His anxiety builds when he discovers a strange purple rash making its way up his body. Is this what will kill him? And then a strange man shows up at his funeral, claiming to have known Dentons long-deceased mother, and warning him to beware of suspicious government characters. . . . Suddenly Dentons life is filled with mysterious questions and precious little time to find the answers.
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Rubin is really funny but like John Green, he manages to be poignant at the same time. You'll laugh out loud while you read this, but you're probably going to tear up a bit too. --Bustle
The dialogue is witty and raunchy, the plot is uniquely twisted, and the ending is to die for. This book will fly off the shelves. --VOYA
Lance Rubin creates a world in which (almost) everyone can answer the question, What would you do if you knew when you were going to die? and holy s*#! the answers are hilarious. I dont think Ive laughed at death so much in a long, long time. Read this book, itll have you dying. Isabel Quintero, Morris Award-winning author of Gabi, A Girl in Pieces
Hilarious, thought-provoking, irreverent, unforgettable. . . . Live your own death, Dent. We love you. --Catherine Gilbert Murdock, author ofDairy Queen
If Six Feet Under had been created by John Hughes: thats Denton Littles Deathdate. Tim Federle, author of The Great American Whatever
Wildly funny, brilliantly weird, and achingly heartfelt. Becky Albertalli, Morris Awardwinning author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Highly original, fantastically entertaining, and laugh-out-loud funny,Denton Little's Deathdateis a wild romp through a night like no other. --Jennifer E. Smith, author of The Geography of You and Me
An utterly enjoyable, engrossing page-turner. --Bulletin
The tweaked contemporary setting, irreverent end-of-life humor, and big, existential questions make this a good pick for fans of John Corey WhaleysNoggin. --Publishers Weekly
