(laughs) The whole MO of every teenager is to feel like the one left out. Every single teenager feels that. That’s why Chosen One narratives are so appealing and powerful and that’s why narratives who are left out of the Chosen One are also appealing and powerful.
That’s what it feels like to be a teenager—it’s the first time, literally the first time, you have stepped away from your family and said “I am not this thing, I am something else.” That journey that you go on when you first step away and fully declare yourself an individual and find out what that means, that’s why YA is so interesting. We’ve all been through it. A lot of us try to pretend we haven’t, but we have all been through—and what a rich field to tell stories in!
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
PATRICK NESS is the creator of the BBC television series Class and the author of ten novels and a short story collection. He’s best known for his books for young adults, including his New York Times bestselling novel The Rest of Us Just Live Here, the acclaimed Chaos Walking trilogy, More Than This, and the Carnegie Medal–winning A Monster Calls. A Monster Calls was released as a major motion picture—with the screenplay by Patrick himself—starring Liam Neeson and Sigourney Weaver. Born in Virginia, Patrick lives in London.
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GUY ADAMS lives in Spain, surrounded by rescue animals. Some of them are his family. He isn’t a spy, but naturally he’s always dreamed of being one. Having spent over ten years working as a professional actor and comedian, eventually he decided he’d quite like to eat regularly, so he switched careers and became a full-time writer. Nobody said he was clever. Against all odds he has managed to stay busy, and since then he has written more than twenty books.
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BOOKS BY PATRICK NESS AND GUY ADAMS
Class: The Stone House
Class: Joyride
Class: What She Does Next Will Astound You
Books by Patrick Ness
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
CREDITS
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COPYRIGHT
HarperTeen is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
CLASS: JOYRIDE. Copyright © 2016 by Guy Adams. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Adams, Guy, author. | Ness, Patrick, creator.
Title: Joyride / created by Patrick Ness ; written by Guy Adams.
Other titles: Class (Television program)
Description: First Edition. | New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017. | “Originally published in the UK in 2016 by BBC Books, an imprint of Ebury Publishing.” | At head of title: Class.
EPub Edition © September 2017 ISBN 9780062666222
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.A238 Jo 2017 | DDC [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016054193
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Originally published in the UK in 2016 by BBC Books, an imprint of Ebury Publishing
FIRST US EDITION, 2017
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