![]() ![]() As commencement approaches and dreams of college acceptances have come true, prospective graduates are paradoxically terrified of what may (or may not) lie ahead.ĭuring his junior year, Peter’s capricious hook-up with the second narrator, Eliza, has now made her the target of a venomous “mean girls” campaign courtesy of Stacy. ![]() ![]() Despite all of these surface successes, Peter feels that “his certainties had all disappeared.” Having taught 12th graders for many years, I’ve witnessed countless existential crises. Peter, the first narrator, is a scholar, an athlete, and a student council representative he has a beautiful (albeit flighty) girlfriend named Stacy, and he’s going to Stanford on a sports scholarship. The cover of We All Looked Up offers images of the four narrators, two male and two female, their backs to the audience, all on the cusp of high school graduation, all having endured years of being judged by their proverbial covers. Even a cursory glance at covers during independent reading reveals boys who choose books based exclusively on their dearth of pinkness. Whoever said “don’t judge a book by its cover” has never taught high school. ![]()
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