Strange Girl
Strange Girl
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Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Annotation: Told from the perspective of a seventeen-year-old boy in love with a mysterious girl who seems to have an unearthly ability to heal, but the ability carries quite a cost.
 
Reviews: 2
Catalog Number: #109328
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Copyright Date: 2015
Edition Date: 2015 Release Date: 11/17/15
Pages: 413 pages
ISBN: 1-481-45059-X
ISBN 13: 978-1-481-45059-1
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2015012476
Dimensions: 22 cm.
Language: English
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ALA Booklist (Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 CDT 2015)

From the moment 17-year-old Fred Allen sees her in the park picking daisies, he is smitten. She is so beautiful, so different from other Elder, South Dakota, girls. Indeed, Fred has no idea how different, or how she will impact his life, until she begins to touch him, both mentally and physically. Somehow Aja heals e mind, the spirit, even the body d others, not just Fred, soon realize it. In this healing, she becomes a danger to herself and to her friends. Pike's romantic fantasy is a gentle love story that harbors the subtle premonition of sadness and even violence. It exposes a more reflective, almost didactic Pike, who introduces readers to Advaita, an Indian philosophy of oneness: Aja is peaceful, Aja is perceptive, Aja is healing, Aja is strange a is. It's an interesting book, one that can be read simply as a sweet, sad romance, or one that can trigger the beginnings of a fascinating philosophical discussion of religion and the meaning of life and death.

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Wilson's High School Catalog
Reading Level: 7.0
Interest Level: 9-12
Reading Counts!: reading level:4.8 / points:21.0 / quiz:Q66771
Lexile: HL660L

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike comes a brand-new fascinating and seductive new novel about a girl with a mysterious ability—but one that carries an unimaginable cost.

From the moment Fred meets Aja, he knows she’s different. She’s pretty, soft-spoken, shy—yet seems to radiate an unusual peace. Fred quickly finds himself falling in love with her.

Then strange things begin to happen around Aja. A riot breaks out that Aja is able to stop by merely speaking a few words. A friend of Fred’s suffers a serious head injury and has a miraculous recovery.

Yet Aja swears she has done nothing.

Unfortunately, Fred is not the only one who notices Aja’s unique gifts. As more and more people begin to question who Aja is and what she can do, she’s soon in grave danger. Because none of them truly understands the source of Aja’s precious abilities—or their devastating cost.

Love Aja or hate her—you will never forget her.

In Strange Girl, #1 bestselling author Christopher Pike has created the rarest of novels—a love story that swings between a heart-pounding mystery and a stirring mystical journey.


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