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Ali Benjamin
Ali Benjamin is the author of THE THING ABOUT JELLYFISH, a novel to be released by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. She is also the co-author of Tim Howard's best-selling THE KEEPER (HarperCollins 2014); Paige Rawl's POSITIVE (HarperCollins 2014), a coming-of-age memoir which was a Junior... show more

Ali Benjamin is the author of THE THING ABOUT JELLYFISH, a novel to be released by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. She is also the co-author of Tim Howard's best-selling THE KEEPER (HarperCollins 2014); Paige Rawl's POSITIVE (HarperCollins 2014), a coming-of-age memoir which was a Junior Library Guild selection and the first-ever nonfiction selection for The Today Show book club; and THE CLEANER PLATE CLUB (Storey Publishing 2010).
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Elentarri's Book Blog
Elentarri's Book Blog rated it 4 years ago
TITLE: The Thing About Jellyfish AUTHOR: Ali Benjamin ________________________ DESCRIPTION: "After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy must have been a rare jellyfish sting--things don't just happen for no reason. Retreating into a s...
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it 6 years ago
My coworker (who has the best taste) recommended this book to me telling me it would make me cry (I appreciated the warning so I didn't end up reading it on desk). It absolutely made me cry. It also gave me that feeling that the best children's books do, that twelve-year-old feeling that's both joyf...
My Never Ending List
My Never Ending List rated it 8 years ago
I thought this novel was okay. I loved the fascinating facts about jellyfish as I am find them interesting and amazing. Suzy is obsessed with them after a school field trip and she begins to believe that they are the cause of her best friend’s death which happened while she was swimming. Suzy is con...
My Never Ending List
My Never Ending List rated it 8 years ago
I thought this novel was okay. I loved the fascinating facts about jellyfish as I am find them interesting and amazing. Suzy is obsessed with them after a school field trip and she begins to believe that they are the cause of her best friend’s death which happened while she was swimming. Suzy is con...
Read All The Things! Reviews
Read All The Things! Reviews rated it 9 years ago
This book taught me so much about jellyfish. Those things are creepy. And, they’re taking over the world. Or, the oceans at least. This makes me glad that I don’t live by the ocean. Colorado has an excellent jellyfish buffer around it, so I don’t have to worry about getting stung to death by somethi...
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