Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015 Hilariously touching and outrageously unforgettable‎:‎ Mark Haddon‎'‎s Christopher Boone meets Holden Caulfield on one *#@‎!‎ of a journey‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎Dylan Mint has Tourette‎'‎s‎.‎ Being sixteen is hard enough‎,‎ but Dylan‎'‎s life is a constant battle to keep the bad stuff in ‎- the swearing‎,‎ the tics‎,‎ the howling dog that seems to escape whenever he gets stressed‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎But a routine visit to the hospital changes everything‎.‎ Overhearing a hushed conversation between the doctor and his mother‎,‎ Dylan discovers that he‎'‎s going to die next March‎.‎ So he grants himself three parting wishes or ‎'‎Cool Things To Do Before I Cack It‎'‎‎.‎ But as Dylan sets out to make his wishes come true‎,‎ he discovers that nothing ‎- and no‎-one ‎- is quite as he had previously supposed‎.‎