Jill at Breaking the Spine started this and I believe that it's awesome" This blog post is to alert those that visit about "the" book that we cannot wait to get our hands on.  What first captured my attention on THE TRAGEDY PAPER by Elizabeth Laban was the bokeh effect and crisp wintery feel of this image. Then I read the synopsis and it just left me with this ache in my chest, so I knew this was a book that wanted to read.

Now you know about my WoW? What do you think? and what is yours?

THE TRAGEDY PAPER

by Elizabeth Laban

Coming 01/08/13

ISBN-13: 978-0375870408

Knopf Books for Young Readers, 320 pages.

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Tim Macbeth is a 17-year-old albino and a recent transfer to the prestigious Irving School, where the motto is, "Enter here to be and find a friend." Tim does not expect to find a friend; all he really wants to do is escape his senior year unnoticed. Despite his efforts to blend into the background, he finds himself falling for the quintessential "it" girl, Vanessa Sheller, girlfriend of Irving's most popular boy. To Tim's surprise, Vanessa is into him, too, and she can kiss her social status goodbye if anyone finds out. Tim and Vanessa enter into a clandestine relationship, but looming over them is the Tragedy Paper, Irving's version of a senior year thesis, assigned by the school's least forgiving teacher.

The story unfolds from two alternating viewpoints: Tim, the tragic, love-struck figure, and Duncan, a current senior, who uncovers the truth behind Tim and Vanessa's story and will consequently produce the greatest Tragedy Paper in Irving's history.