
When fate delivers them both to the same surprising crossroads, the Will Graysons find their lives overlapping and hurtling in new and unexpected directions. It's not that far from Evanston to Naperville, but Chicago suburbanites Will Grayson and Will Grayson might as well live on different planets. Willie the Wildkit looks approximately like a mountain lion, though, and while I am admittedly not an expert in zoology, I'm reasonably sure that mountain lions do not, in fact, respect everyone. It is approximately across from the hallway mural in which a poorly painted version of our school mascot, Willie the Wildkit, says in a speech bubble, "Wildkits Respect EVERYONE," which is hilarious on at least fourteen different levels, the fourteenth being that there is no such thing as a wildkit. I know the approximate location of her locker.
The World's Greatest Christmas Stories, edited by Eric Posselt. Twelve Crimes of Christmas, by Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh. Stephanie Perkins (includes stories about Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solistice, and New Year's Eve) My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories, ed. Murder for Christmas, by Thomas Godfrey.
Christmas Gif': An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs, and Stories, edited by Charlemae Hill Rollins. Angels & Other Strangers: Family Christmas Stories, by Katherine Paterson. A War of Gifts: An Ender Story, by Orson Scott Card. The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman, by Louise Plummer. The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily, by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan. The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, by Christopher Moore. Silent Night: A Novel, by Mary Higgins Clark. Season's Revenge: A Christmas Mystery, by Henry Kisor (written by an ETHS alum). A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby (New Year's Eve story). Listen for the Fig Tree, by Sharon Bell Mathis (Kwanzaa story). The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens. The Black Butterfly, by Shirley Reva Vernick. Ahmal and the Night Visitors, by Roger Duvoisin.