Absolutely amazing!! I love adding young reader books into my TBR pile every now and then. (Especially as I work in a bookstore and should know what's going on in the teen/yr world as well as adult fiction.) I'm really glad I added this gem of a novel. The entire time I was reading I was just mesmerized. The way that K. Applegate writes it was perfect. I saw a little bit of the beautiful simplicity of the narration from The Art of Racing in the Rain; it's so easy to fall into this story. I read it in practically one sitting! (Last impressions: I hope they make it into a film! I think Pixar could do wonderful things with it.)