Yoon, Nicola

Yoon's debut novel adds a twist to the time-honored genre of a terminally ill teen seizing his or her final days: for Maddy—who is suffering from Severe Combined Immunodeficiency and who, "allergic to the world," hasn't left her house in seventeen years—it's living to the fullest that would kill her. Maddy is resigned to her sequestered existence of online classes, voracious reading, and human contact with only her devoted mother and a sympathetic home nurse, until fellow teen Olly—isolated in his own way by an abusive father and frequent relocation