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The Deathday Letter by Shaun David Hutchinson

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**2010 Debut Author Challenge List** Reading level: Young Adult Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Simon Pulse; Original edition (June 15, 2010)  Summary: The clock is ticking? Ollie can't be bothered to care about anything but girls until he gets his Deathday Letter and learns he's going to die in twenty-four hours.  Bummer. Ollie does what he does best: nothing. Then his best friend convinces him to live a little, and go after Ronnie, the girl who recently trampled his about-to-expire heart. Ollie turns to carloads of pudding and over-the-top declarations, but even playing the death card doesn't work. All he wants is to set things right with the girl of his dreams. It's now or never. My review: If you knew you had one day to live, what would you do with it? That is Ollie's dilemma. One morning he enters the kitchen to see his sad-faced family staring at him, a dreaded Deathday Letter on the table. After the bad news sinks in Ollie goes to.... School. I