Green, John and David Levithan. will grayson, will grayson. New York: Dutton Books, 2010. Print.
Awards
2010 Indie Lit Award Runner-up
2011 Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Literature Honors Award
2011 Rainbow Bibliography
2011 Rainbow List
Annotation
Will Grayson and Will Grayson may have the same name, but they don’t know each other…yet. After they meet with the help of fate, though, their lives are changed dramatically.
Booktallk
There’s Will Grayson and then there’s o.w.g. – the Other Will Grayson.
Will Grayson is excited. He’s about to meet Isaac, the boy he’s been talking to online for weeks. Even though they only live a train ride away, they’ve never seen each other in person. Will Grayson can’t wait to meet Isaac, he already knows he’s in love. The only problem is, will Isaac like him back? And what will he tell Maura, his girlfriend?
The Other Will Grayson is apathetic. He’s not interested in school and while he is interested in Jane, he is deliberately pretending that he couldn’t care less. Will is afraid to get hurt, but he’s also afraid that he is all of the things his best friend Tiny Cooper accuses him of: essentially, being a whiny sidekick, too scared to take a stand and go after what (or who) he wants.
Will Grayson and Will Grayson “might as well live on different planets”, but they’re about to meet in a weird twist of fate that’s going to change both their lives dramatically. And it will be Tiny Cooper, the original Will Grayson’s best friend, who unknowingly helps to bring them together and keeps them together as they each begin “respective romantic turns-of-heart”.
*Phil (16 years old) told me about this book; he originally read it because one of his friends suggested it to him and "loved it"! He thought the novel was "funny and a lot of fun...definitely different that what you'd expect". He also mentioned that the two-person narration added a "cool twist" to the story because it allows readers to get the "perspectives from both of them".*
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