Título: Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend
Autor: Alan Cumyn
Sinopse: Prepare to be blown away—or rather, carried away on huge muscular wings—by this blissfully outlandish, bracingly-smart, tour de force about a teen who has to come to terms with relinquishing control for the first time as she falls for the hot new…pterodactyl…at school. After all, everybody wants him! Sheils is very pleased with her perfectly controlled life (controlling others while she’s at it). She’s smart, powerful, the Student Body Chair, and she even has a loving boyfriend. What more could a girl ask for? But everything changes when the first-ever interspecies transfer student, a pterodactyl named Pyke, enrolls at her school. There’s something about him—something primal—that causes the students to lose control whenever he’s around. Even Sheils, the seemingly perfect self-confident girl that she is, can’t keep her mind off of him, despite her doting boyfriend and despite the fact that Pyke immediately starts dating Jocelyn, the school’s fastest runner who Sheils has always discounted as a nobody. Pyke, hugely popular in a school whose motto is to embrace differences, is asked to join a band, and when his band plays at the Autumn Whirl dance, his preternatural shrieking music sends everyone into a literal frenzy. No one can remember what happened the next day, but Shiels learns that she danced far too long with Pyke, her nose has turned purple, and she may have done something with her boyfriend that she shouldn’t have. Who’s in control now? Hilarious and relatable (despite the dinosaur), Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend is about a teen who must come to terms with not being in control of all things at all times, break free of her mundane life, discover who her true self is, and, oh, finding out that going primal isn’t always a bad thing.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend”, de Alan Cumyn, publicado pela editora Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, em 2016 e com 304 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Páginas: 304
Ano: 2016
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 1481439804
ISBN13: 9781481439800
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books costumam explorar narrativas que combinam emoção profunda com temas de superação e identidade, muitas vezes focados no universo infantojuvenil. A experiência de leitura é marcada por personagens jovens que enfrentam desafios reais, desde questões familiares complexas até descobertas pessoais, tudo isso em um tom que varia entre o sensível e o inspirador. O catálogo apresenta obras que transitam entre a ficção com elementos fantásticos e histórias mais realistas, com ritmo que pode ser tanto contemplativo quanto tenso, dependendo do conflito central. A linguagem é acessível, porém rica em camadas emocionais, convidando o leitor a refletir sobre temas como coragem, pertencimento e transformação.
