Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Emmich, Val

From the show's creators comes the groundbreaking, bestselling novel inspired by the hit Broadway show Dear Evan Hansen and soon to be a major motion picture!
Dear Evan Hansen,

Today's going to be an amazing day and here's why...

When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family's griefover the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell, that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend.

Suddenly, Evan isn't invisible anymore- even to the girl of his dreams. And Connor Murphy's parents, with their beautiful home on the other side of town, have taken him in like he was their own, desperate to know more about their enigmatic son from his closest friend.As Evan gets pulled deeper into their swirl of anger, regret, and confusion, he knows that what he's doing can't be right, but if he's helping people, how wrong can it be?

No longer tangled in his once-incapacitating anxiety, this new Evan has a purpose. And a website. He's confident. He's a viral phenomenon. Every day is amazing. Until everything is in danger of unraveling and he comes face to face with his greatest obstacle: himself.

A simple lie leads to complicated truths in this big-hearted coming-of-age story of grief, authenticity and the struggle to belong in an age of instant connectivity and profound isolation.

Author: Val Emmich, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek
Publisher: Poppy Books
Published: 10/09/2018
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780316420235
Age Range: 14-18

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.2
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 197967 / Dear Evan Hansen


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/09/2018
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2018 pg. 76
School Library Journal 09/01/2018 pg. 119
Booklist 09/01/2018 pg. 107
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2018
Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2018 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw

About the Author
Val Emmich is a New York Times-bestselling author, singer-songwriter, and actor. His novels include The Reminders and Maybe We're Electric.

Steven Levenson is the Tony Award-winning playwright of Dear Evan Hansen. Other plays include Days of Rage, If I Forget, The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin, and The Language of Trees. In television, he was a writer and producer on Showtime's Masters of Sex and co-creator of the limited series Fosse/Verdon (FX). Upcoming film projects include the adaptation of Jonathan Larson's tick, tick...boom!

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are the Oscar, Grammy, Tony, and Golden Globe-winning songwriting team behind the Broadway musicals Dear Evan Hansen and A Christmas Story, The Musical. Their film projects include: The Greatest Showman, La La Land, Trolls, and Aladdin as well as the upcoming live action musical Snow White and original animated musical Foster.