Book Pitch : An Abundance of Katherines

Lexile Level : 890

Pages : 272

Grade Level : 6-8

Content Area : Math 
Awards : 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book, received recognition as one of American Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults.

The book that I'd really like for you guys to chose for our book club is An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. Some of you may recognize the brilliant author, John Green, as he is also the author of the wildly popular novels Paper Towns and The Fault In Our Stars. In this other novel of his, a math-child-prodigy named Colin Singleton has a thing for girls named Katherine. The problem is, Katherines don't seem to have a thing for Colin. He's been dumped by 19 girls all sharing the name 'Katherine', spelled exactly the same way. Crazy, right? He thinks so too! So Colin decides to form "the Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability," which is a theorem that will be able to predict the future of all of his relationships, transform him into a true genius, and finally win himself a girl! Love, friendship, and (apparently) a dead Astro-Hungarian archduke all add up to create this heart-warming story about reinventing oneself. This novel also incorporates several mathematical concepts and embodies the answer to the question: "when is math ever going to be relevant in real-life?" As a math-lover, this novel just seems really intriguing to me, and I would really love to read it within a book club. 

I think middle school students would also really enjoy this humorous novel, but to really test that, I actually asked some middle school students that I know for their opinons. I gave them a brief synopsis as well as read the first page to them.. and then they gave me their *honest* opinions about the book:




So please consider choosing my novel, An Abundance of Katherines by John Green... I promise you won't regret your choice! ;)

Emily