Dear Universe
Contents (64)
- Copyright
- Contents
- Prologue
- {OCTOBER}
- Days ’til prom: Eons
- 1
- SECOND HALF OF SENIOR YEAR {JANUARY}
- Days ’til prom: 103
- 2
- Days ’til prom: Still 103
- 3
- Days ’til prom: 100
- 4
- Days ’til prom: Still 100
- 5
- Days ’til prom: 89
- {FEBRUARY}
- Days ’til prom: 83
- 6
- Days ’til prom: Still 83
- 7
- Days ’til prom: 65
- Days ’til prom: 64
- 8
- Days ’til prom: 61
- Days ’til prom: 57
- 9
- {MARCH}
- Days ’til prom: 51
- 10
- Days ’til prom: Still 51
- 11
- Days ’til prom: 50
- 12
- Days ’til prom: 49
- Days ’til prom: 48
- 13
- Days ’til prom: Still 48
- 14
- Days ’til prom: Seems irrelevant now
- 15
- Days ’til graduation: 31
- 16
- Days ’til graduation: 30
- 17
- {APRIL}
- Days ’til graduation: 17
- 18
- Days ’til graduation: 11
- Days ’til graduation: 6
- 19
- Days ’til graduation: 5
- 20
- Days ’til graduation: Still 4
- 21
- Days ‘til graduation: Still 2
- 22
- Days ’til graduation: Still 2, but minus a few hours
- Epilogue
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PRAISE FOR
- Dear Universe
- PRAISE FOR
- Love & Other Carnivorous Plants
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2020 by Florence Gonsalves
Cover art copyright © 2020 by Dana Ledl
Cover design by Karina Granda
Cover copyright © 2020 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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Originally published in hardcover and ebook by Little, Brown and Company in May 2020
First Trade Paperback Edition: May 2021
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Names: Gonsalves, Florence, author.
Title: Dear Universe / Florence Gonsalves.
Description: First edition. | New York; Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2020. | Summary: “Seventeen-year-old Chamomile struggles to bring together her two universes of school, filled with the hype of senior year and future plans, and home, where her father is living with a terminal illness, until she meets a fellow student and hospital volunteer who helps her understand both worlds as one”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019022199 | ISBN 9780316436731 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780316436748 (ebk.) | ISBN 9780316436762 (library edition ebk.)
Subjects: CYAC: High schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Best friends—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Parkinson’s disease—Fiction. | Sick—Fiction. | Family problems—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.G65219 De 2020 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019022199
ISBNs: 978-0-316-43675-5 (pbk.), 978-0-316-43674-8 (ebook)
E3-20210325-JV-PC-REV
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Discover More
About the Author
Praise for Dear Universe
Praise for Love & Other Carnivorous Plants
For Daddy —FG
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