A journal-writing assignment leads Jam and her classmates into a miraculous world they call Belzhar, where the past is restored and Jam can feel Reeve's arms around her once again." There, Jam is placed in an exclusive, mysterious class (Special Topics in English), where the students read only one writer this semester, that writer is Sylvia Plath. Dutton says that Belzhar "is the story of Jam Gallahue, who-after tragically losing her boyfriend, Reeve-has been sent to The Wooden Barn, a therapeutic boarding school in rural Vermont for "emotionally fragile, highly intelligent" teens. It's set to be published by Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin, on Sept. Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings, is coming out with a young adult novel called Belzhar (a play on Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar).
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