Just Like That

Name: Just Like That
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Gary D. Schmidt
ISBN: 9781980098829

Author: Gary D. Schmidt

Narrator: Leah Horowitz

Unabridged: 11 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/05/2021

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes, School

Synopsis

Meryl Lee Kowalski arrives at a Maine boarding school, haunted by personal loss. Matt Coffin hides out on the coast, attempting to
evade a violent criminal. As war rages overseas and young people at home demand change, Meryl Lee and Matt begin to face their
demons and make fresh choices—singly, together, and with the help of unexpected friends.

Set in the 1960s in the world of Gary D. Schmidt’s award-winning novels The Wednesday Wars and Okay for Now, this timeless story of grief, growth, and change is full of heart and humor.

About Gary D. Schmidt

Gary D. Schmidt is the bestselling author of The Labors of Hercules Beal; Just Like That; National Book Award finalist Okay for Now; Pay Attention, Carter Jones; Orbiting Jupiter; the Newbery Honor and Printz Honor Book Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy; and the Newbery Honor Book The Wednesday Wars. He is also a contributor to and coeditor, with Leah Henderson, of the acclaimed short story collection A Little Bit Super. He lives in rural Michigan.

Reviews

Goodreads review by DaNae

Once I was able to forgive the first chapter, Gary Schmidt reminded me why he on my favorites list.......more

Goodreads review by Dave

“Good books have questions for us to ponder. That is what all good art does." Just Like That is a kind of vaguely familiar English catch-phrase. It reminds me of Grace Paley’s title Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Boom, and just like that, they fell in love, or just like that, he died. Just Like......more

Goodreads review by Lady

This had better be a darn good book if it's going to even come close to making up for killing off (view spoiler)[Holling (hide spoiler)] . What an absolute gut-punch. 2020 is the worst. Edit (29 July 2024): Okay, so I wrote the above when I first found out about this book in 2020. (Which is also when this review got 31-ish likes--oo......more

Goodreads review by Melissa

I'm coming to see patterns in Gary D. Schmidt's writing, patterns that in a lesser writer would make for very tired and sameish writing. There are children in transition and adults who help or hinder them. There are moments of profound happiness and terrible tragedy. And, perhaps strangest of all fo......more