Nate Expectations

Tim Federle

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781481404136
• eBook ISBN: 9781481404143

"The Nate series by Tim Federle is a wonderful evocation of what it's like to be a theater kid. Highly recommended." —Lin-Manuel Miranda, star and creator of the musical, Hamilton
"An exceptional swan song for a beloved character." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Third time's a charm! Nate Foster returns home to Jankburg, Pennsylvania, to face his biggest challenge yet—high school—in this final novel in the Lambda Literary Award–winning Nate trilogy, which The New York Times calls "inspired and inspiring." When the news hits that E.T.: The Musical wasn't nominated for a single Tony Award—not one!—the show closes, leaving Nate both out of luck and out of a job. And while Nate's cast mates are eager to move on (the boy he understudies already landed a role on a TV show!), Nate knows it's back to square one, also known as Jankburg, Pennsylvania. Where horror (read: high school) awaits.Desperate to turn his life from flop to fabulous, Nate takes on a huge freshman English project with his BFF, Libby: he's going to make a musical out of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. (What could possibly go…right?) But when Nate's New York crush ghosts him, and his grades start to slip, he finds the only thing harder than being on Broadway is being a freshman — especially when you've got a secret you're desperate to sing out about.This magical conclusion to Tim Federle's beloved Nate series is a love letter to theater kids young and not-so-young—and for anyone who ever wondered if they could truly go home again. Especially when doing so means facing everything you thought you'd left behind.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Prologue
• Not Bitter!!
• The One Concept That Theater Should Borrow from Sports
• Hey, Adults: Not Everything Is a Lesson!
• Mourning a Hoagie
• Teacher, My Teacher
• Parting Gifts
• The Part Where I Hum “So Long, Farewell” with My Aunt
• All the Things That Could Go Wrong
• The Most Thoughtful People I Know
• Here Comes the Lava
• They’ve Been Talking About Me for Weeks
• Ben Mendoza vs. Mr. English
• People Who Call Musicals “Plays”
• Everyone Loves a Montage!
• President of the Dork Union
• Bad British Accents
• A Short but Important Note on School Policies
• Like She’s Thirty, or Something
• Poor Connection Quality
• One, Two, Three—Improv!
• A Totally Unbelievable Scene at a Window
• Here Comes the Bride
• I Guess This Is a Thing Now
• Acting Is About Channeling Crappy Stuff from Your Past
• If You Give an Adult Enough Chances
• You Can’t Tap-Dance to a Ballad
• Not Like an Ocean or Something Pretty
• Some Days
• Maverick Boys
• My Whole Life Is a Word Search
• Bossy Nate Is Bossy
• Half-Cockney, Half-Southern
• Genetically Wiggly Eyebrows
• You Could Have, but You Didn’t!
• Here’s What $25,000 Will Get You in This Day and Age
• Signs
• Warning Labels
• Thriller Night
• Boys Are Overrated
• Christmas Except Not
• Airplane Mode
• The Story of the Day I Was Born
• About the Author
• Copyright