Click (novel)

Click
1st edition
Author(s)	David Almond, Eoin Colfer, Roddy Doyle, Deborah Ellis, Nick Hornby, Margo Lanagan, Gregory Maguire, Ruth Ozeki, Linda Sue Park, and Tim Wynne-Jones
Publication date	2007

Click (2007) is a novel written by ten authors- David Almond, Eoin Colfer, Roddy Doyle, Deborah Ellis, Nick Hornby, Margo Lanagan, Gregory Maguire, Ruth Ozeki, Linda Sue Park, and Tim Wynne-Jones. It is about a photographer named George G. Keane his grandchildren, Jason and Margaret, and how they affected the lives of different people, such as a Russian prisoner and an Irish teen.

Plot

This novel describes the life of the photographer, and the impact he has on his grandchildren when he dies. He leaves his granddaughter, Margaret, a box with seven smaller boxes each containing a shell, and a message saying "throw them all back". She discovers that each letter on each box represents the continents that they came from, and that her grandfather intends her to put them back where they came from over her life. Meanwhile, Jason is left with a camera and uses it to take several series of pictures, one of which consisted of a girl doing ordinary things throughout the day, only she is holding a large piece of glass all day. The last chapter of the book depicts Margaret as an elderly adult in the future with her niece, watching a documentary about her grandfather, her brother, and herself.^[1]

Approach

The novel was written by each author with a separate chapter: "Author Ruth Ozeki had an understandable reaction when book editor Arthur Levine invited her to team up with nine other writers to create a new novel for young readers. She thought he was 'nuts.'"^[2]

Reception

The novel was received well by the online community, most notably in an article on NPR.^[2]

References

1. ^ Click at Arthur A. Levine Books
2. ^ ^{a b} 'Click:' One Book, 10 Authors, NPR