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Also by Julie Buxbaum:

Hope and Other Punch Lines, May 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
After You, September 2009
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The Opposite of Love, February 2008
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Hope and Other Punch Lines
Julie Buxbaum

Delacorte Press
May 2019
On Sale: May 7, 2019
Featuring: Abbi Hope Goldstein; Noah Stern
320 pages
ISBN: 1524766771
EAN: 9781524766771
Kindle: B07J4CZ8HY
Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult Historical

Sometimes looking to the past helps you find your future.

Abbi Hope Goldstein is like every other teenager, with a few smallish exceptions: her famous alter ego, Baby Hope, is the subject of internet memes, she has asthma, and sometimes people spontaneously burst into tears when they recognize her. Abbi has lived almost her entire life in the shadow of the terrorist attacks of September 11. On that fateful day, she was captured in what became an iconic photograph: in the picture, Abbi (aka "Baby Hope") wears a birthday crown and grasps a red balloon; just behind her, the South Tower of the World Trade Center is collapsing.

Now, fifteen years later, Abbi is desperate for anonymity and decides to spend the summer before her seventeenth birthday incognito as a counselor at Knights Day Camp two towns away. She's psyched for eight weeks in the company of four-year-olds, none of whom have ever heard of Baby Hope.

Too bad Noah Stern, whose own world was irrevocably shattered on that terrible day, has a similar summer plan. Noah believes his meeting Baby Hope is fate. Abbi is sure it's a disaster. Soon, though, the two team up to ask difficult questions about the history behind the Baby Hope photo.

But is either of them ready to hear the answers?

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