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Original Title:	Love is the Higher Law
ISBN:	0375834680 (ISBN13: 9780375834684)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Peter Duchene, Claire Amadeus, Jasper Renn
Setting:	New York City, New York,2001(United States) New York State(United States)
Literary Awards:	Lincoln Award Nominee (2012)

Love Is the Higher Law

David Levithan

Hardcover | Pages: 176 pages

Rating: 3.75 | 7217 Users | 815 Reviews

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Title	:	Love Is the Higher Law
Author	:	David Levithan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 176 pages
Published	:	August 25th 2009 by Knopf Books for Young Readers
Categories	:	Young Adult. LGBT. Contemporary. Fiction. Realistic Fiction

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First there is a Before, and then there is an After. . . .

The lives of three teens—Claire, Jasper, and Peter—are altered forever on September 11, 2001. Claire, a high school junior, has to get to her younger brother in his classroom. Jasper, a college sophomore from Brooklyn, wakes to his parents’ frantic calls from Korea, wondering if he’s okay. Peter, a classmate of Claire’s, has to make his way back to school as everything happens around him.

Here are three teens whose intertwining lives are reshaped by this catastrophic event. As each gets to know the other, their moments become wound around each other’s in a way that leads to new understandings, new friendships, and new levels of awareness for the world around them and the people close by.

David Levithan has written a novel of loss and grief, but also one of hope and redemption as his characters slowly learn to move forward in their lives, despite being changed forever.

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Ratings: 3.75 From 7217 Users | 815 Reviews

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I'm kind of obsessed with 9/11 and it's obviously a touchy subject as well as a tear-jerker, so I has great expectations for this book. It was OK. Just OK (for me).At first, I either hated or didn't like the characters. This changed a little as I read more and more. I was, again, OK with them. So, as you can guess, the story didn't grab me. I had no intense feelings, and I wanted to, so bad :(

This was such a beautifully written book. I really enjoy Levithan's writing and this book definitely didn't disappoint. 9/11 is always going to be a sensitive subject and here, I thought it was handled exceptionally well. I loved how the three likeable and realistic main characters lives all came together and the relationships between all three of them was both touching and tasteful considering the background subject. The whole novel was extremely poignant without feeling too heavy. As it was



Following three teenagers during the events of 9/11 and its aftermath, "Love is the Higher Law" is Levithan at his best. I have sometimes found his more fantastical world-building in his other novels too distracting from the story - but this book succeeds on all levels. It seems a bit trite to say it comes from the heart, but the detail of the day and the feelings involved are passionate and real. Sometimes the teenagers may seem a little older than they actually are, but they know themselves

What a cheap way to incorporate the September 11th attacks into an uninteresting and needless story. It's a disgrace how such a bad book tries to get people to read it by placing the 9/11 tragedies in the forefront of the story in such a blatant and shameless manner. If a fiction novel about the real life events of September 11th absolutely needed to be written, it should have at the very LEAST included some heart and soul. This was like reading the most generic "love conquers all" kind of story

I think I need to accept the fact that the David Levithan work I'll enjoy most already happened in the days he ghostwrote for The Babysitters Club.I like the idea of this book a lot, and I cannot deny Levithan packs in some beautiful sentences about 9/11. In the future there is much here that may help explain what was felt that day, what rippled through the country.But also: this is a novel. And Levithan's multi-POV narrative reads more like a project in multi-POV narrative than, you know, just

Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.comHuge thanks to the girl who sat next to me on the bus to Chicago from ALA. She had this ARC in her hands when she boarded the bus for our 3 1/2 hour trip home, and she finished it by the time the trip was over. When I asked how she liked it, she nodded, I believe, then swallowed a lump in her throat, and offered me the book. Once again, thank you!Do you remember where you were on 9/11? The characters in LOVE IS THE HIGHER LAW were