Starry Night

By Isabel Gillies
Macmillan Children's Publishing Group

Sometimes one night can change everything. On this particular night, Wren and her three best friends are attending a black-tie party at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to celebrate the opening of a major exhibit curated by her father. An enormous wind blasts through the city, making everyone feel that something unexpected and perhaps wonderful will happen. And for Wren, that something wonderful is Nolan. With his root-beer-brown Michelangelo eyes, Nolan changes the way Wren's heart beats. Suddenly everything is different. Nothing makes sense except for this boy. What happens to your life when everything changes, even your heart? How much do you give up? How much do you keep?

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Isabel Gillies, known for her television role as Detective Stabler’s wife on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, has published two memoirs, Happens Every Day (a New York Times bestseller) and A Year and Six Seconds (both Scribner). She graduated from New York University with a BFA in film. Isabel lives in Manhattan with her family.


Celebrity Lookalike: The girl from "Orange Is The New Black"
Motto: "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
5 Must Reads: Biographies or autobiographies of almost anyone. It's so good to know how other people "did it," it doesn't matter what the "it" is. Ethan Frome (beautiful, clear, sad), Sidhartha (whoa. That's a good one), Letters to a Young Poet (Rilke...best advice EVER), Sense and Sensibility (although, in truth, I didn't read that until my 20's, but it's awesome)
The one thing your author can’t live without: I'm assuming this question doesn't count my kids, husband and dog, so: Fresh flowers, black tea (with milk and honey), and a beautifully made bed!