Just in Case (novel)
Front cover of first edition | |
| Author | Meg Rosoff |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Young-adult novel, magic realism |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
Publication date | 3 August 2006 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Pages | 231 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0-14-138078-0 |
| OCLC | 224849493 |
| LC Class | PZ7.R719563 Jus 2006 |
Just in Case is a young-adult novel by Meg Rosoff published by Penguin in 2006. Its adolescent protagonist David Case spends the majority of the book attempting to avoid fate. Rosoff won the annual Carnegie Medal, recognising the year's best children's book published in the U.K. In a press release announcing the award, the librarians called it "a story about death, depression, sex, choice and survival."
Just in Case also won the German Jugendliteraturpreis and made the shortlists for the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the 2006 Costa Book Awards.
Random House (Wendy Lamb Books) published the first U.S. edition, also in 2006.