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    Audiobook9 hours

    Faceless

    Written by Alyssa Sheinmel

    Narrated by Susan-Kate Heaney

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    About this audiobook

    This emotionally gripping novel about a girl who gets a face transplant is Wonder for a YA audience.

    When Maisie gets into a terrible accident, her face is partially destroyed. She's lucky enough to get a face transplant--but how do you live your life when you can't even recognize yourself anymore?

    She was a runner, a girlfriend, a good student...a normal girl. Now all that has changed. As Maisie discovers how much her looks did--and didn't--shape her relationship to the world, she has to redefine her own identity, and figure out what "lucky" really means.

    From Alyssa Sheinmel, the acclaimed author of Second Star, this is a lyrical and gripping novel that will challenge readers to think about how we create and define ourselves.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScholastic
    Release dateSep 29, 2015
    ISBN9780545921206
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    Faceless
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    Alyssa Sheinmel

    Alyssa Sheinmel was born in Stanford, California, and moved across the country to New York when she was six years old. She is the author of Faceless and co-author of The Haunting of Sunshine Girl.

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    • 5/5
      What an incredible book! You will laugh and you will cry. I highly recommend it. Enjoy
    • 5/5
      Very interesting, I felt like not finishing it. thanks to the author
    • 3/5
      This book is suited more for teens and young adults. There’s a lot of self pity, it gets old and annoying. It’s slow moving, no riveting plots.
      I had to skip a few chapters here and there. I finished it out of curiosity.
    • 4/5
      This book made me think about what I would do if I were in the main character's shoes. I highly recommend this audio book.
    • 4/5
      If you want a really good tear-jerker, then this book fits the bill. Maisie wakes up in the hospital after being severely burned by a lightning strike while she was out for a run. She soon has a surgical procedure to transplant parts of her face that had to be removed because they couldn't be saved. The story traces Maisie's struggle to come to terms with not only a new face, but also the entirely new life that comes with it. Her friends and family treat her differently now, and she can't do the things she has always loved making her want to escape to a place where noone knew what she looked like "before."

      This is a well-written, realistic story about what happens to people when tragedy leaves them "lucky" to be alive but with huge obstacles to overcome.
    • 4/5
      A strong YA novel. Students will love the page-turning tale of Maisie and how she faces a life-altering accident.
    • 4/5
      I recommend everyone reading this book to read the article the author mentioned in the acknowledgements. Raffi Khatchadourian wore a fascinating and detailed article in the February 2012 "New Yorker" about a man who received a full face transplant as well covering the history of transplants and a few other successful and unsuccessful cases. I ended up reading the article after reading a few chapters of the book and saw that the article greatly influenced the book. One thing that the article covers in greater depth than the book is the great risk inherent in any transplant. The book does address it but does not include the fact that no one with a face transplant has survived longer than ten years or so. Also one of the doctors quoted in the article said that the patients are made aware that death is a real possibility, not just a slight risk. It's an interesting dilemma- live life with missing all or part of your face, not having sensation and the risks and pain involved with multiple skin grafts and surgeries, or a transplant that improves appearance but is still not "normal" but possibly regain sensation, but have to take pills the rest of your life that have serious side effects on your daily functioning and also no guarantee on how long the transplant might last or if compilations might end your life. I really don't know what I'd choose and I hope I never have to find out.
    • 3/5
      This was a fascinating read about a teenage girl who had to have a face transplant after a freak accident, and it was clearly obvious that the author had put a huge amount of research into the topic before writing this novel. Although I found Maise's physical and emotional journey compelling as she battled with loss, grief and finally acceptance, I didn't really like her; I preferred Maisie's friends - Serena, Chirag and Adam. I also found the plot a bit slow and I was never really emotionally connected with the book. However, I do think "Faceless" was a worthwhile read as I learnt quite a bit about face transplants.