Forget Me Not
1st Edition
Published on 2. October 2012
384 pages
978-1-4424-3256-7 (ISBN)
Description
From the author of Take Me There, a fast-paced novel in verse about a girl caught between life and death?and the boy who will do anything to save her.
Ally is devastated when a scandalous photo of her is texted around school. With her reputation in shambles and her life essentially over, she hides out in a back hallway, trying to figure out where everything went wrong.
Elijah has spent time in that hallway too. He landed there after taking a whole bottle of sleeping pills. Now he can see ghosts, and he knows what Ally has yet to suspect?that she's already half dead, and one choice away from never coming back.
Elijah has loved Ally for years and would do anything to save her from the in-between place. But if she's going to live, Ally must face her inner demons and find the will to save herself.
Told in interwoven verse narratives, this crushingly honest and poetic ?blend of fantasy and potent reality succeeds? (Kirkus Reviews).
Ally is devastated when a scandalous photo of her is texted around school. With her reputation in shambles and her life essentially over, she hides out in a back hallway, trying to figure out where everything went wrong.
Elijah has spent time in that hallway too. He landed there after taking a whole bottle of sleeping pills. Now he can see ghosts, and he knows what Ally has yet to suspect?that she's already half dead, and one choice away from never coming back.
Elijah has loved Ally for years and would do anything to save her from the in-between place. But if she's going to live, Ally must face her inner demons and find the will to save herself.
Told in interwoven verse narratives, this crushingly honest and poetic ?blend of fantasy and potent reality succeeds? (Kirkus Reviews).
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Carolee Dean is the author of Forget Me Not, Take Me There, and Comfort. She lives with her family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she works with teenagers as a speech pathologist. Find out more at CaroleeDean.com.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Part One: The Ha_ _way
- I Came to the Hallway
- The Second Floor of Humanities
- From This Location
- I Know
- How it Happened
- When he saw Brianna
- I Squeezed his Hand
- I Look Across the Courtyard at the Fab
- Haunted Hallway
- The Ghosts of Raven Valley High
- Out The Window
- Write It Out
- Elijah Wears Black
- I Have a Moleskine Notebook
- Part Two: T__ __ Many Questi_ns
- Interrogation
- Old Man Winters
- Mr. Tooms Office
- He Just Lets me Sit There
- Brianna's Eyes
- I Convinced Myself
- The Bell Rings
- Part Three: A Br_ef H_story of my L_FE
- Say Cheese
- A Christmas Carol
- The Fairest
- I Inherited My Love of The Stage
- There's Something Dark
- Some Kids Say
- After the Tardy
- Missing Davis
- It Was the Week my Mother Left
- Freshman Fall
- It's Ironic
- Davis
- Ernest Hemingway
- Nana Cassell
- Lunch with the in Crowd
- Things Got Weird
- I See Elijah
- Third Lunch
- Willy J
- The Sparrow and the Hawk
- Sixth Period
- One of the Special Ed Teachers
- Hide And Seek
- I'm Definitely
- The Final Bell Rings
- Davis Walks Out
- Part Four: The View Fr_m the R_ _f
- The Fab
- Brianna Leaves
- Bird's-Eye View
- I'm Still Pretty Messed Up
- The Nine Circles of Raven Valley High
- The Stage
- Part Five: "No _xit" a Trag_dy in on_ Rash Act
- Cast of Characters
- Int. Hallway-early Morning
- Things That Fall
- Part Six: Life (or is it Deat_?) in T_e _allway
- Fire or Ice
- Sister Sisyphus
- The Girl in Black Knits
- While Rotceo Sleeps
- Dead End
- Let's Play Another Game
- The Tantalizing Duo
- I Can't Believe
- Homecoming Dress
- Backfire
- The Cocktail
- How it Happened
- Oscar Smith & Wesson
- Part Seven: A_Other Sleepless _ight
- My House
- Why?
- The Curve
- Dear Frank
- Follow the Leader
- Hey, Bro
- Advice
- Part Eight: "N_ Exit" Scene Tw_
- Cast of Characters
- Int. Hallway - Late Afternoon
- Part Nine: B_ckin the Re_l World
- It Hits Me
- I Don't Know
- Q & A
- The Bus
- Oscar's House
- The Rules
- It Hits Me
- When I Wake Up
- More Q & A
- Warning
- I Remember the Night
- The Hospital
- The Residents of ICU
- The Girl in White
- Bruised
- I Follow
- My Father's Lines
- Elijah Looks at Me
- The Other Parent
- Back to School Days
- Newton's Apple
- The Bell Rings
- The Tardy Bell Rings
- Hello
- Gods and Demons
- Special Ed
- Elijah's Island
- Surprise Visitor
- Escape
- Hide Out
- Nothing Much Changed
- The Girls on the Dance Team
- Later That Night
- When I Got to World History
- The Getaway
- Gone in Sixty Seconds
- Blood and Feathers
- I Run to the Hospital
- I Feel Myself Slipping Away
- Elijah Rushes in
- A Few Minutes Later
- The Hangman's Advice
- Part Ten: T_ _ Far G_ne
- I Remember
- I Remember
- And a Boy of Seventeen
- The Letter
- Dumped
- Nobody
- Grease
- I Wonder
- After the Show
- The Lotus Eater
- Am I a Fool
- Three More Lotus Petals
- Ally, Don't Give Up
- One Last Thing
- Just Fall Again
- Listen
- Falling
- Not Tonight
- A Little Light
- Part Eleven: Fall_ng
- Int. Hallway-Morning
- Part Twelve: Obs_rvations of th_ not Quit_ D_ad
- We Run
- Creative Writing Class
- Letters to Ally
- "Dead Rapper Rap" by Ally Cassell
- The Last Verse
- When We Leave
- The Ravenettes
- Could I?
- When School is Out
- When I Wake Up
- The Fairest
- The Ladder
- What I Really Want
- Life at the Top
- Part Thirteen: _ello Again
- Int. Hallway-Morning
- Part Fourteen: A Fi_al _ote
- My Body
- What I Won't Say
- Rewriting my Story
- Note to Ernest
- Part Fifteen: Aft_r Words
- Int. Hallway-Morning
- Acknowledgments
- About the Poems
- About Carolee Dean
- Copyright
