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HARD LOVE
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award
Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book
Published by Simon & Schuster, ISBN 068984154x, 13: 9780689841545
©1999
The book has shelf wear and a few small creases, 12 pages have pink highlights on a sentence or two, 1 page has green highlights under a few words.
Other Hard Love Awards
Bulletin for the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Book, 1999
School Library Journal Best Book of 1999
Booklist Editor's Choice, 1999
School Library Journal Starred Review, 2000
Booklist Starred Review, 2000
Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up Award for Young Adult Novels, 2000
Lambda Literary Award, 2000
Printz Award Honor Book, 2000
A YALSA Quick Pick for Young Adults, 2000
A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, 2000
New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age list, 2000 and 2001
International Reading Association Young Adult Choice, 2001
Nominated: Eliot Rosewater (Indiana) High School Book Award, 2001
Nominated: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, 2001
Nominated: Missouri Gateway Reader's Choice Award, 2001
Nominated: Maryland Library Association Black-Eyed Susan Award, 2001-02
Pennsylvania School Librarian’s Association list, 2001-02
A YALSA Popular Paperback for Young Adults, 2002
Finalist: Evergreen (Washington) Young Adult Book Award, 2002
Nominated: Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award, 2003-04
YALSA's 100 Best of the Best for the 21st Century, 1994-2003
After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality.
Sixteen-year-old John can't express any emotion unless he's writing. When he picks up a magazine written by a teenage girl named Marisol, he knows he has to meet her--she sounds incredible. When the two finally do meet, they discover a wonderful friendship that allows them to talk about anything--John talks about his parents' divorce, Marisol wishes her adoptive parents wouldn't smother her so much. John realizes he's falling in love with her and reveals his feelings. Surprised and touched, she can't believe that he actually loves her, but the feeling isn't mutual. And to make matters worse, John is about to find out a secret about Marisol that may just crush his entire world.
Ellen Wittlinger (born in Belleville, Illinois on October 21, 1948) is an author for young adults, including Gracie's Girl and the Printz Honor book Hard Love. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and lives in western Delaware.
Ellen Wittlinger went to college at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. She published a book of poetry, Breakers, in 1979. Wittlinger had two fellowship years in Provincetown at the Fine Arts Work Center and worked for a local newspaper, The Provincetown Advocate.
One of Wittlinger's plays won the author's prize at the annual Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theaters competition.
Her first novel, Lombardo's Law, was published in 1993
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