Because you'll never meet me /
by Thomas, Leah [author.].
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BookPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2015.Description: 344 pages ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781619635906 (hbk.); 1619635909 (hbk.).Title notes: YASubject(s): Best friends -- Juvenile fiction | Pen pals -- Juvenile fiction | Epilepsy in adolescence -- Juvenile fiction | Blind children -- Juvenile fiction | Heart -- Hypertrophy -- Patients -- Juvenile fiction | Echolocation (Physiology) -- Juvenile fiction | Teenagers with disabilities -- Juvenile fiction | Loneliness in adolescence -- Juvenile fiction | Friendship in adolescence -- Juvenile fiction | Bullying -- Juvenile fiction | Single-parent families -- Juvenile fiction | Michigan -- Juvenile fiction | Germany -- Juvenile fiction | Letters -- Fiction | Epilepsy -- Fiction | Blind -- Fiction | People with disabilities -- Fiction | Loneliness -- Fiction | Friendship -- Fiction | Bullying -- Fiction | Single-parent families -- Fiction | Young adult fiction | Epistolary fictionSummary: Ollie and Moritz are best friends, but they can never meet. Ollie is allergic to electricity. Contact with it causes debilitating seizures. Moritz's weak heart is kept pumping by an electronic pacemaker. If they ever did meet, Ollie would seize. But Moritz would die without his pacemaker. Both hermits from society, the boys develop a fierce bond through letters that become a lifeline during dark times -- as Ollie loses his only friend, Liz, to the normalcy of high school and Moritz deals with a bully set on destroying him. A story of impossible friendship and hope under strange circumstances, about two special boys who, like many teens, are just waiting for their moment to shine.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Oliver Ollie Paulot sees electricity in full color-saffron loops swirling around power lines, silver confetti bursting from outlets, green plumes trailing from computer keyboards-a beautiful but deadly condition that triggers crippling grand mal seizures. Ollie lives in a remote cabin with his overprotective mom, visited only by the eccentric Doctor Auburn-Stache, the family physician, and Liz, the only friend Ollie has ever made.<br> Moritz was born without eyes and sees via an acute form of echolocation, like a bat. Enrolled in a school for problem students, he is shunned by his misfit peers and tormented by a bully named Lenz. Moritz also has cardiomyopathy, and is kept alive by an electric pacemaker. Ollie and Moritz can never meet-if they did, Ollie would seize, but turning off the pacemaker would kill Moritz.<br> As the boys develop a fierce bond through their letters, the world changes around them. Liz moves on to high school, leaving Ollie behind, and Moritz can't escape Lenz's wrath. Their letters to each other become a lifeline during dark times-until Moritz reveals that he holds the key to their shared, sinister past, and has been keeping it from Ollie all along.
Ollie and Moritz are best friends, but they can never meet. Ollie is allergic to electricity. Contact with it causes debilitating seizures. Moritz's weak heart is kept pumping by an electronic pacemaker. If they ever did meet, Ollie would seize. But Moritz would die without his pacemaker. Both hermits from society, the boys develop a fierce bond through letters that become a lifeline during dark times -- as Ollie loses his only friend, Liz, to the normalcy of high school and Moritz deals with a bully set on destroying him. A story of impossible friendship and hope under strange circumstances, about two special boys who, like many teens, are just waiting for their moment to shine.
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