Wide Awake Now
From the New York Times bestselling author of Every Day, this is a queer love story set against the backdrop of the 2024 presidential election, in a reimagining of David Levithan’s 2004 novel Wide Awake.
When David Levithan published Wide Awake in 2004, he set it in an imagined 2024, where a gay Jewish man had just been elected president of the United States, until a governor decides that some election results in his state are invalid, awarding crucial votes to the other candidate and his fellow party member. What follows is the story of teens Jimmy and Duncan as they explore their relationship, their politics, and their country.
In Wide Awake Now, David Levithan is flipping the script and rewriting Jimmy and…
When not writing during spare hours on weekends, David Levithan is editorial director at Scholastic and the founding editor of the PUSH imprint, which is devoted to finding new voices and new authors in teen literature. His acclaimed novels Boy Meets Boy and The Realm of Possibility started as stories he wrote for his friends for Valentine's Day (something he's done for the past 22 years and counting) that turned themselves into teen novels. He's often asked if the book is a work of fantasy or a work of reality, and the answer is right down the middle—it's about where we're going, and where we should be.
Ryan and Avery
David Levithan
The Collectors: Stories
M.T. Anderson, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, A.S. King, David Levithan, Cory McCarthy,Anna-Marie McLemore, G. Neri, Jason Reynolds, Randy Ribay, Jenny Torres Sanchez
Wide Awake Now
David Levithan
Answers in the Pages
David Levithan
Take Me With You When You Go
David Levithan and Jennifer Niven
Every Day: The Graphic Novel
David Levithan; illustrated by Dion MBD
19 Love Songs
David Levithan
Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily
Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Sam & Ilsa's Last Hurrah
Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Someday
David Levithan
The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily
Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Another Day
David Levithan