Author: \u00a0Gayle Forman<\/p>\n
Publisher: Aladdin<\/p>\n
Alex is twelve, and he did something very, very bad. A judge sentences him to spend his summer volunteering at a retirement home where he\u2019s bossed around by an annoying and self-important do-gooder named Maya-Jade. He hasn\u2019t seen his mom in a year, his aunt and uncle don\u2019t want him, and Shady Glen\u2019s geriatric residents seem like zombies to him.<\/span><\/p>\n Josey is 107 and ready for his life to be over. He has evaded death many times, having survived ghettos, dragnets, and a concentration camp\u2014all thanks to the heroism of a woman named Olka and his own ability to sew. But now he spends his days in room 206 at Shady Glen, refusing to speak and waiting (and waiting and waiting) to die. Until Alex knocks on Josey\u2019s door\u2026and Josey begins to tell Alex his story.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Author: \u00a0Gayle Forman Publisher: Aladdin Alex is twelve, and he did something very, very bad. A judge sentences him to spend his summer volunteering at a retirement home where he\u2019s bossed around by an annoying and self-important do-gooder named Maya-Jade. He hasn\u2019t seen his mom in a year, his aunt and uncle don\u2019t want him, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":131440,"template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[108,49,47,122,110,139,153,141,24,46,20,29],"product_tag":[],"bundle_layout":"","bundled_by":[],"bundled_items":[],"yoast_head":"\n