When thirteen-year-old Pierre Anthon leaves school to sit in a plum tree and train for becoming part of nothing, his seventh grade classmates set out on a desperate quest for the meaning of life.
Awards
Danish Cultural Ministry Prize for best children's/youth book of 2001.
Le Prix Libbylit 2008.
Michael L. Printz Honor Book, 2011.
American Library Association Batchelder Honor Book.