

Dear Evan Hansen
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Coming of Age
3.8
(10.2K)
Val Emmich
Steven Levenson
Benj Pasek
Justin Paul
From the show's creators comes the groundbreaking, bestselling novel inspired by the hit Broadway show Dear Evan Hansen and soon to be a major motion picture! Dear Evan Hansen, Today's going to be an amazing day and here's why... When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family's griefover the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell, that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend. Suddenly, Evan isn't invisible anymore– even to the girl of his dreams. And Connor Murphy's parents, with their beautiful home on the other side of town, have taken him in like he was their own, desperate to know more about their enigmatic son from his closest friend.As Evan gets pulled deeper into their swirl of anger, regret, and confusion, he knows that what he's doing can't be right, but if he's helping people, how wrong can it be? No longer tangled in his once-incapacitating anxiety, this new Evan has a purpose. And a website. He's confident. He's a viral phenomenon. Every day is amazing. Until everything is in danger of unraveling and he comes face to face with his greatest obstacle: himself. A simple lie leads to complicated truths in this big-hearted coming-of-age story of grief, authenticity and the struggle to belong in an age of instant connectivity and profound isolation.
Young Adult
Mental Health
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Author
Val Emmich
Pages
368
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published Date
2018-10-09
ISBN
0316420220 9780316420228
Ratings
Google: 5
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"Really great! Flew through it. Highly recommend to teens and everybody."
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Skye Edelson-Bennett
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haven
"Great book! Not as good as seeing it on Broadway, but very accurate to the musical! Love that it covers the topics of life, suicide, lies, love, and ethics. Would definitely recommend!"
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Maddy :)
"I actually read the script for class. And the story along with many of the characters leaves feeling a bit conflicted 😐… idk i lowkey feel like they did Conner dirty and he deserved better than what was given to him. 😅 anyway… the songs were great and it was a captivating story "
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FRANKLÍN
"great story with lots of lessons and growth "
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aub
"You learn more about the character in this!"
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Hope
"Great book with an amazing message. I rarely cry to films or books, but this one definitely made me shed some tears! "
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lilly b
"Only so much you can do with the source material I suppose. Dissapointing they didn't really... add much in my opinion? Yes, we get Connor info, but otherwise they didn't add a lot."
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cartoongame 500
"Very accurate to the musical. Coming of age meets big mistakes that change the whole course of a teenage boy’s life. "
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Piper Mitchell
"This book was so sad in the best way!!!!! I really liked how you could almost feel everything he was feeling. "
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Kari Bauer