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What if you couldn’t touch anything in the outside world? Never breathe in the fresh air, feel the sun warm your face . . . or kiss the boy next door? In Everything, Everything, Maddy is a girl who’s literally allergic to the outside world, and Olly is the boy who moves in next door . . . and becomes the greatest risk she’s ever taken.
"This extraordinary first novel about love so strong it might kill us is too good to feel like a debut. Tender, creative, beautifully written, and with a great twist, Everything, Everything is one of the best books I've read this year."—Jodi Picoult
My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world.I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.
But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly.
Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.
Everything, Everything will make you laugh, cry, and feel everything in between. It's an innovative, inspiring, and heartbreakingly romantic debut novel that unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, illustrations, and more.
And don’t miss Nicola Yoon's bestselling novels The Sun Is Also A Starand Instructions for Dancing.
- Reading age12 - 17 years
- Print length352 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level7 - 9
- Lexile measureHL610L
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.7 x 8.25 inches
- PublisherEmber
- Publication dateMarch 7, 2017
- ISBN-100553496670
- ISBN-13978-0553496673
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A #1 Publishers Weekly bestseller
A #1 Indie bestseller
A USA Today bestseller
A Wall Street Journal bestseller
A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens
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“Gorgeous and lyrical.” --The New York Times Book Review
"[A] fresh, moving debut."--Entertainment Weekly, A-
"YA book lovers, your newest obsession is here."--MTV.com
★ "This heartwarming story transcends the ordinary by exploring the hopes, dreams, and inherent risks of love in all of its forms." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
★"Everything, Everything is wonderful, wonderful."—SLJ, Starred Review
“Everything, Everything is everything, everything—powerful, lovely, heart-wrenching, and so absorbing I devoured it in one sitting. It’s a wonder. The rare novel that lifts and shatters and fills you all at once.” —Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places
“With her stunning debut, Everything, Everything, Nicola Yoon has constructed an entirely unique and beautiful reading experience. Gorgeous writing meshes with original artwork to tell a love story like no other. You’ve never read a book like this.” —David Arnold, author of Mosquitoland
“Everything, Everything has everything . . . romance, heart, and intelligence. Nicola Yoon's book and voice stayed with me long after I finished reading.” —Danielle Paige, New York Times bestselling author of Dorothy Must Die
“There's a quiet beauty about Everything, Everything that kept me captivated from start to finish. Olly and Madeline's love story stole my heart.”--Katie McGarry,author of Nowhere But Here
"This extraordinary first novel about love so strong it might kill us is too good to feel like a debut. Tender, creative, beautifully written, and with a great twist, Everything, Everything is one of the best books I've read this year." --Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Leaving Time
"A do-not-miss for fans of John Green and Rainbow Rowell (aka everyone)."--Justine Magazine
"A vibrant, thrilling, and, ultimately, wholly original tale that's bound to be an instant hit."--Bustle.com
"This is an easy romance to get caught up in."--Publishers Weekly
"Deeply satisfying."--The Bulletin
"Nicola Yoon’s first novel will give you butterflies."--Seventeen
“Not only was I totally hooked . . . by the end I was totally blown away.”—Arun Rath, NPR Weekend’s All Things Considered
“Heartwarming and inventive.”—Mashable.com
“Readers will root for the precocious Maddy as she falls hard for the boy next door . . . teens in search of a swoonworthy read will devour.”--Booklist
"I just couldn't put it down . . . If you’re a fan of The Fault in Our Stars, If I Stay or Before I Die, then this book is for you."--TheGuardian.com
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“MOVIE NIGHT OR Honor Pictionary or Book Club?” my mom asks while inflating a blood pressure cuff around my arm. She doesn’t mention her favorite of all our post-dinner activities—Phonetic Scrabble. I look up to see that her eyes are already laughing at me.
“Phonetic,” I say.
She stops inflating the cuff. Ordinarily Carla, my full-time nurse, would be taking my blood pressure and filling out my daily health log, but my mom’s given her the day off. It’s my birthday and we always spend the day together, just the two of us.
She puts on her stethoscope so that she can listen to my heartbeat. Her smile fades and is replaced by her more serious doctor’s face. This is the face her patients most often see— slightly distant, professional, and concerned. I wonder if they find it comforting.
Impulsively I give her a quick kiss on the forehead to remind her that it’s just me, her favorite patient, her daughter.
She opens her eyes, smiles, and caresses my cheek. I guess if you’re going to be born with an illness that requires constant care, then it’s good to have your mom as your doctor.
A few seconds later she gives me her best I’m-the-doctor- and-I’m-afraid-I-have-some-bad-news-for-you face. “It’s your big day. Why don’t we play something you have an actual chance of winning? Honor Pictionary?”
Since regular Pictionary can’t really be played with two people, we invented Honor Pictionary. One person draws and the other person is on her honor to make her best guess. If you guess correctly, the other person scores.
I narrow my eyes at her. “We’re playing Phonetic, and I’m winning this time,” I say confidently, though I have no chance of winning. In all our years of playing Phonetic Scrabble, or Fonetik Skrabbl, I’ve never beaten her at it. The last time we played I came close. But then she devastated me on the final word, playing JEENZ on a triple word score.
“OK.” She shakes her head with mock pity. “Anything you want.” She closes her laughing eyes to listen to the stethoscope.
We spend the rest of the morning baking my traditional birthday cake of vanilla sponge with vanilla cream frosting. After it’s cooled, I apply an unreasonably thin layer of frosting, just enough to cover the cake. We are, both of us, cake people, not frosting people. For decoration, I draw eighteen frosted daisies with white petals and a white center across the top. On the sides I fashion draped white curtains.
“Perfect.” My mom peers over my shoulders as I finish up. “Just like you.”
I turn to face her. She’s smiling a wide, proud smile at me, but her eyes are bright with tears.
“You. Are. Tragic,” I say, and squirt a dollop of frosting on her nose, which only makes her laugh and cry some more. Really, she’s not usually this emotional, but something about my birthday always makes her both weepy and joyful at the same time. And if she’s weepy and joyful, then I’m weepy and joyful, too.
“I know,” she says, throwing her hands helplessly up in the air. “I’m totally pathetic.” She pulls me into a hug and squeezes. Frosting gets into my hair.
My birthday is the one day of the year that we’re both most acutely aware of my illness. It’s the acknowledging of the passage of time that does it. Another whole year of being sick, no hope for a cure on the horizon. Another year of missing all the normal teenagery things—learner’s permit, first kiss, prom, first heartbreak, first fender bender. Another year of my mom doing nothing but working and taking care of me. Every other day these omissions are easy—easier, at least—to ignore.
This year is a little harder than the previous. Maybe it’s because I’m eighteen now. Technically, I’m an adult. I should be leaving home, going off to college. My mom should be dreading empty-nest syndrome. But because of SCID, I’m not going anywhere.
Later, after dinner, she gives me a beautiful set of watercolor pencils that had been on my wish list for months. We go into the living room and sit cross-legged in front of the coffee table. This is also part of our birthday ritual: She lights a single candle in the center of the cake. I close my eyes and make a wish. I blow the candle out.
“What did you wish for?” she asks as soon as I open my eyes.
Really there’s only one thing to wish for—a magical cure that will allow me to run free outside like a wild animal. But I never make that wish because it’s impossible. It’s like wishing that mermaids and dragons and unicorns were real. Instead I wish for something more likely than a cure. Something less likely to make us both sad.
“World peace,” I say.
Three slices of cake later, we begin a game of Fonetik. I do not win. I don’t even come close.
She uses all seven letters and puts down POKALIP next to an S. POKALIPS.
“What’s that?” I ask.
“Apocalypse,” she says, eyes dancing.
“No, Mom. No way. I can’t give that to you.”
“Yes,” is all she says.
“Mom, you need an extra A. No way.”
“Pokalips,” she says for effect, gesturing at the letters. “It totally works.”
I shake my head.
“P O K A L I P S,” she insists, slowly dragging out the word.
“Oh my God, you’re relentless,” I say, throwing my hands up. “OK, OK, I’ll allow it.”
“Yesssss.” She pumps her fist and laughs at me and marks down her now-insurmountable score. “You’ve never really understood this game,” she says. “It’s a game of persuasion.”
I slice myself another piece of cake. “That was not persuasion,” I say. “That was cheating.”
“Same same,” she says, and we both laugh.
“You can beat me at Honor Pictionary tomorrow,” she says.
After I lose, we go to the couch and watch our favorite movie, Young Frankenstein. Watching it is also part of our birthday ritual. I put my head in her lap, and she strokes my hair, and we laugh at the same jokes in the same way that we’ve been laughing at them for years. All in all, not a bad way to spend your eighteenth birthday.
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- Publisher : Ember; Reprint edition (March 7, 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0553496670
- ISBN-13 : 978-0553496673
- Reading age : 12 - 17 years
- Lexile measure : HL610L
- Grade level : 7 - 9
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.25 inches
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Nicola Yoon is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything, The Sun Is Also a Star, Instructions for Dancing, and co-author of Blackout. She is a National Book Award finalist, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book recipient and a Coretta Scott King New Talent Award winner. Two of her novels have been made into major motion pictures. Nicola grew up in Jamaica and Brooklyn, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, novelist David Yoon, and their daughter, both of whom she loves beyond all reason. You can find her at www.NicolaYoon.com and @NicolaYoon on Twitter/Instagram
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- Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2015Everything, Everything is one of those books I was just as nervous about reading as I was excited about doing so. The premise drew me in immediately, but I feared it had the potential to get one of “those books” that I love until it ruins my life. I had high hopes from the glowing reviews left by friends, but I was cautiously optimistic because there are also a fair number of negative reviews out there, too. Turns out I had no cause to actually be worried about any of these things. Everything, Everything was a joy to read, from start to finish. It was a wonderful breath of fresh air and I seriously loved everything about it.
It was impossible to not feel sorry for Maddy in the beginning of the book. She was young and intelligent and vibrant. She had a great personality and was a good kid. It made me sad she was missing out on so much because of her illness. My heart ached for her because I wanted more for her. As the book went on however, I became enamored with her character growth as she began experiencing things “normal” teens do. Olly? I absolutely adored him. I loved his quirks. He was sweet and funny and struggling with his own issues at home. The pairing of these characters was perfect for me. Their home lives might’ve been quite different, but they were able to relate to each other because of them. Plus, they were just cute as hell together. There’s something so satisfying about young love. Maybe it’s the way the innocence and curiosity mesh together. They just left me grinning from ear to ear.
I can’t say I’m really surprised by the mixed reviews for this book though. I can totally understand why it’s so polarizing. Despite my initials fears, as soon as I started reading, I knew I was in for a special experience. There was never a question about which side of the fence I’d fall on. The characters and their stories spoke to me. I loved the voice and the overall tone of the book. The message about life and love and pursuing both to the fullest gave me food for thought and just made me happy. It also made me emotional at times. One of the things I loved about this book was how it was told not only through narrative, but in IM conversations, emails, drawings and “life is short” spoiler book reviews. I couldn’t dream of putting this book down once I picked it up. (And I stayed up way past my bedtime to finish it.) It was a quick, easy read that was funny and heartwarming and unique. This book is diverse, romantic and looks at sex in a realistic and positive way. This book definitely left a mark. I won’t forget the story or the characters for a long time and I can see me rereading this story over and over again for years to come.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2017“Life is a gift, don’t take it for granted.” There are some people in the world who would love to enjoy the little things in life, but are just not privileged enough to do so.The book, Everything Everything, written by Nicola Yun is about an 18 year old girl named Madeline. Madeline is different from the average 18 year old though. She has a really rare disease that makes her allergic to the world around her. She cannot even step outside for fear that she will die. This means that she has to stay inside all the time. Madeline has only been outside a few times in her life, but only before she was diagnosed with her disease. Her house is filled with air filters and equipment to keep any and all germs out. As a result, she is never exposed to the outside air and can stay healthy and alive. Her over-sanitary house is where Madeline spends all of her days, either reading, doing school work, or wondering what life is like outside of her four, lonely walls.
The story begins in Madeline's house where the only people she knows are her mother and her nurse. Everyday, she does the same thing and nothing new happens, until one day when she sees a moving truck. Since nothing new ever happens, Madeline gets really excited. As the new neighbors are moving in, she watches them and imagines what it would be like to be outside meeting the new neighbors. Watching them becomes a favorite hobby of hers and, as a result, she picks up on their personalities. She grows fond of their teenage boy named Olly and wishes she could meet him. After a little while, she realizes that her bedroom window is directly across from his window. They begin communicating with one another from their windows, then move on to email. After they talk for a while, Madeline asks her nurse if she can meet Olly in person. This takes a lot of persuading, but her nurse eventually gives in. The first time they meet in person, Madeline’s life is changed. Once Olly goes home, Madeline begs her nurse to allow him to come back. Again, her nurse lets him come over. This time, they hold hands. The next time he comes over, they kiss. This is Madeline’s first kiss and something she never thought she would get to experience. This made her extremely happy and she definitely didn’t take this for granted. After Olly left, Madeline felt like a new person and decided she didn’t want to be scared anymore. She bought two plane tickets, walked out the door, found Olly, and left for the airport. The whole book revolves around one key point: don’t forget to appreciate the little things in life. Everyone can benefit from reading this book because many people , people go through life taking everything for granted. However, once the little things are gone, there is a realization that it’s good to appreciate things.
Everything Everything really spoke to me. It engaged my emotions, and I could feel everything the characters were feeling because of the intense imagery the author used. The author also did a good job of keeping the right tone throughout the book. I liked how there weren't too many characters. The author also did a good job of making sure every character had a purpose. The book also had a really good flow to it, and wasn’t hard to follow at all. It also seemed perfectly complete and nothing was left out, and all of the loose ends were tied up.
This book is a 10 out of 10, but it’s aimed mostly for teenage girls. Ultimately, Everything Everything is a forbidden love story between Madeline and Olly as well as Madeline and the Outside world. The only thing I would change about this book is the ending. The book ended so abruptly and I wish it went into a little more detail about what becomes of Madeline. Overall, the book is an excellent story and by far, one of the best I’ve ever read. I would definitely recommend the book for anyone who enjoys love stories with a unique plot.
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- MRS TA YELLANDReviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars So different.
When I started to read I was confused as to why I had downloaded this book, I thought it was a book for young people. Boy am I glad I kept reading, because this is a wonderful book about love. I love the way it's written and just adore the central characters. Pretty sure this author has a very bright future ahead of her.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The story is amazing
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Lucero CreixellReviewed in Mexico on March 30, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars no puedes parar de leerlo
tengo 12 años y me encantó el libro, me pareció muy entretenido y rápido de leer. Mucho mejor que la pelicula.
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Henri B NetoReviewed in Brazil on March 23, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Um favorito improvável
Tudo e Todas as Coisas foi um livro que, apesar de chamar bastante a minha atenção, eu sempre o evitei de forma inconsciente. Faz muito tempo que não leio nada que já pela sinopse pode ser considerado um sick lit, e se eu dissesse que a história de uma menina que é simplesmente alérgica à tudo não me passava a sensação de que as coisas terminariam mal, eu com certeza estaria mentindo.
Mas então, a Amazon fez uma promoção imperdível com o hardcover... E, quando o livro chegou, sem que percebesse, já estava virando páginas e páginas sobre a vida enclausurada de Madeline e a sua fome quase que inocente de querer conhecer o mundo.
E falando da Maddie, sem sombra de dúvidas, foi a sua visão de mundo que me fisgou em primeiro lugar. Ela é uma menina de 18 anos que simplesmente não vivia - apenas sobrevivia. Foi assustador entender alguns de seus questionamentos, e também foi engraçado perceber que algumas decisões impulsivas tomada por ela não me causaram tanta revolta quanto causaria com qualquer outro personagem de livro Jovem Adulto.
Talvez, este poder de convencimento tenha vindo da própria narrativa da Nicole Yoon. A forma como ela montou a sua história e como ela escolheu explorar o texto realmente deixaram o livro dinâmico e ajudaram a criar uma narradora tão tridimensional quanto a sua protagonista. Com emails, postagens de blog, chats com o deu vizinho Ollie, prontuários médicos, verbetes e ilustrações, a narrativa em primeira pessoa de Madeleine é crível e cativante.
Então, temos a grande pegadinha que a autora traz. E, sendo bem sincero, eu meio que já desconfiava. Mas, ainda sim, a forma como ela escolheu lidar com as consequências que seu plot twist traz realmente me convenceu. Sem vilões, apenas pessoas machucadas. E talvez seja por isso que tenha gostado tanto do tom agridoce.
Enfim, Tudo e Todas as Coisas se tornou um bookcrush improvável. Eu poderia facilmente ter me decepcionado com o livro, mas justamente a forma como a Nicola Yoon escolheu para contar o seu romamce que realmente me comprou. Isto, e o fato de ter percebido que a autora meio que sempre recria a sua própria família em seus livros. Sou um molenga.