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Martine Leavitt

Biography

Martine Leavitt

Martine Leavitt has written several award-winning novels for young adults, including KETURAH AND LORD DEATH, a finalist for the National Book Award, and HECK SUPERHERO, a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. She lives in Alberta, Canada

Martine Leavitt

Books by Martine Leavitt

by Martine Leavitt - Fiction, Young Adult 12+

Seventeen-year-old Calvin has always known his fate is linked to the comic book character from "Calvin & Hobbes." He was born on the day the last strip was published; his grandpa left a stuffed tiger named Hobbes in his crib; and he even has a best friend named Susie. As a child Calvin played with the toy Hobbes, controlling his every word and action, until Hobbes was washed to death. But now Calvin is a teenager who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, Hobbes is back --- as a delusion --- and Calvin can't control him. Calvin decides that if he can convince Bill Watterson to draw one final comic strip, showing a normal teenaged Calvin, he will be cured.