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Sun 9/2  2pm-3pm   Nancy Grossman reads from her debut young adult novel, A World Away Hyperion  hc $16.99 YA fiction 9781423151531   It will be a summer of firsts for sixteen year old Eliza Miller. She has never made a phone call, never tried on a pair of jeans, never sat in a darkened theater waiting for a movie to start. She's never even talked to someone her age who isn't Amish, like her. When she leaves her close-knit family to nanny, a part of her can't wait to leave behind everything she knows. She can't imagine the secrets she will uncover, the friends she will make, the surprises and temptations of a way of life so different from her own. By summer’s end she will have to make some impossible choices. Whichever choice she makes, she knows she will lose someone she loves. The book has already garnered a starred Kirkus Review and is appropriate for readers 12 and up!     Nancy Grossman currently teaches Community Service Studies, Creative Writing and Young Adult Literature at DePaul University. She and her husband Ken love to visit their daughter Maggie, drum major for the Marching Tar Heels! During a trip to Lancaster, PA with girlfriends from high school she met an Amish teenager and imagined what it would be like to take her home and show her our world.