Read it in the Green Room

Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone

Tae Keller

Random House Children's Books

  • writingPrecise, compassionate narration

Publishers Weekly describes Keller’s alternating first-person narrative as sensitively exploring shifting social rules, the anxieties of being oneself, and coming to terms with one’s flaws; it highlights bullying and the desire for acceptance.

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The Green Room

Backstage of Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone.

Walk in mid-chapter. The people of the book are there, as themselves, knowing what they know so far — and nothing else. Ask them anything. They have read exactly as far as you have.

A moment in the Green Room

Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone · Tae Keller

The narrator

Of Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone, as they are at your reading place

You

What happens next?

The narrator

“I can only tell you what you have read. Past your page there is nothing yet — not for you, and not for me. Turn it, and come back.”

Their knowledge stops where your reading does.

Illustrative conversation. The app answers from the passages you have read.

Who is in the room

Anyone who has walked on by your page.

The cast

Any character who has appeared so far. Someone who hasn’t walked on yet isn’t in the room. That’s not a limitation; that’s the point.

The narrator

The voice telling you the story, as far as it has told it.

The author

As the book presents them — the mind behind the pages you have read, not a biography.

The book itself

Ask what it is doing to you so far. It answers from its own pages, up to yours.

Before you go in

What critics and prize juries said.

Editorial synthesis

Publishers Weekly describes Keller’s alternating first-person narrative as sensitively exploring shifting social rules, the anxieties of being oneself, and coming to terms with one’s flaws; it highlights bullying and the desire for acceptance.

Drawn from www.publishersweekly.com.

How it stays unspoiled

Nothing past your page exists.

The companion is assembled from the passages you have read and only those. A character who knows the ending is no one worth talking to, so there is no override — not behind a setting, not behind a confirmation. Your position is the wall.

You are here

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