The universe versus Alex Woods / Gavin Extence.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : Redhook, 2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 407 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780316246576 (hc.); 0316246573 (hc.)Subject(s): Teenagers -- Great Britain -- Fiction | Epileptics -- Fiction | Veterans -- Fiction | Friendship -- FictionGenre/Form: Bildungsromans. | Fiction. DDC classification: 823/.92 LOC classification: PR6105.X78 | U55 2013Summary: "Alex Woods was struck by a meteorite when he was ten years old, leaving scars that marked him for an extraordinary life. The son of a fortune teller, bookish, and an easy target for bullies, he hasn't had the most conventional childhood. When he meets curmudgeonly widower Mr. Peterson, he finds an unlikely friend. Someone who teaches him that that you only get one shot at life. That you have to make it count. So when, aged seventeen, Alex is stopped at Dover customs with 113 grams of marijuana, an urn full of ashes on the passenger seat, and an entire nation in uproar, he's fairly sure he's done the right thing ..."--From publisher description.Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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"Alex Woods was struck by a meteorite when he was ten years old, leaving scars that marked him for an extraordinary life. The son of a fortune teller, bookish, and an easy target for bullies, he hasn't had the most conventional childhood. When he meets curmudgeonly widower Mr. Peterson, he finds an unlikely friend. Someone who teaches him that that you only get one shot at life. That you have to make it count. So when, aged seventeen, Alex is stopped at Dover customs with 113 grams of marijuana, an urn full of ashes on the passenger seat, and an entire nation in uproar, he's fairly sure he's done the right thing ..."--From publisher description.
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