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OLDER FICTION
Teller, Janne

Nothing

240 pp. | Atheneum | February, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4169-8579-2 $16.99
(3) YA Translated by Martin Aitken. A nihilistic seventh-grader asserts: "Nothing matters" then climbs a tree and pelts his classmates with philosophical arguments (also plums from the tree). To refute him, the kids compile an increasingly horrifying "heap of meaning" (items include the dug-up casket of a baby and a classmate's freshly chopped-off finger). This stark meditation on mob mentality and life's meaning is devastating and argument-provoking.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz

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