Better Nate Than Ever

Tim Federle

Feb 2013 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Soon to be a Disney+ Original movie!

“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

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Slate Favorite Book of the Year

A small-town boy hops a bus to New York City to crash an audition for E.T.: The Musical in this winning middle grade novel that The New York Times called “inspired and inspiring.”

Nate Foster has big dreams. His whole life, he’s wanted to star in a Broadway show. (Heck, he’d settle for seeing a Broadway show.) But how is Nate supposed to make his dreams come true when he’s stuck in Jankburg, Pennsylvania, where no one (except his best pal Libby) appreciates a good show tune? With Libby’s help, Nate plans a daring overnight escape to New York. There’s an open casting call for E.T.: The Musical, and Nate knows this could be the difference between small-town blues and big-time stardom.

Tim Federle’s “hilarious and heartwarming debut novel” (Publishers Weekly) is full of broken curfews, second chances, and the adventure of growing up—because sometimes you have to get four hundred miles from your backyard to finally feel at home.

Ratings and reviews

Cool, just like Five Six Seven Nate, I read that one first, Tim Federle should really number them. After read this one, Better Nate than Ever, I had to Reread Five Six Seven Nate. Tim also needs to come up with shorter titles. It's amazing what you can forget, and what you just didn't notice in the first place in a book that you reae a few years again. The two book seem to of different tones to them. And they don't seem like the same books even though they also do. What I mean is, The first book, (Better Nate than Ever,) is a lot of Nate noticing his own downsides and talking about the kinds who torstered him for his . . prefrences. Which he doesn't talk about in the second book (Five Six Seven Nate), in that one he's talking about the musical. This if one is so worth reading though, I mean Nate's odition was hilarious and it's better to go in to the second one already knowing about Nate's sexuality, which doesn't really come up in the second book, well not until the stairwell scene anyway. I'm really starting to like Jordan. I didn't realize that Nate and Jordan were talking to eachother in the first book, although that makes a bit more since, sence Jordan new Nate's name and started flerting in book two. Es we're on that subject I would like to ask a question here, How does everyone in the first book know? I mean, I can get the kinds at school guessing or something. I can even get the kids at was god camp, I mean maybe Atheony told was friends or something, but how did that little kid on holloween know? That makes no since what so ever. That kid has never met Nate, unless maybe he saw him at the oditions, but even then, he should have no reason to think anything. It can't be that ovious. Also how did Jordan know in book two? Still doesn't make since. You should really read them in order, although that might ruin the shock of, Jordan, the gifts, and the stairwell scene. They are good books. I just wish I could call then a series, but I don't think of anything as a series until it's at least a trilogy long. A series needs three or more books. I wish there was another, also so I can see what happens next. I mean Nate now has Jordan, Libby, and the Musical. So what's going to happen, Will Nate take over Jordan's part? Will Nate and Jordan um hang out? Will Nate be able to be friends with Jordan and still keep was friendship with Libby? Or will Libby and Jordan get along? I mean Libby was Jordan's friend before she ment Nate. What will haspen with all of them? I want to know, And I'm sure I'm not the only one.

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About the author

Tim Federle is the showrunner and executive producer of High School Musical: the Musical: the Series, which he created for Disney+. His novels include the New York Times Notable Book Better Nate Than Ever and its Lambda Literature Award–winning sequel—which Lin-Manuel Miranda called “a wonderful evocation of what it’s like to be a theater kid” (New York Times). A film adaptation of Nate, written and directed by Federle, will premiere on Disney+ in spring 2022. The film stars Aria Brooks, Joshua Bassett, Lisa Kudrow, and Rueby Wood as Nate. Tim’s hit series of cocktail recipe books, including Tequila Mockingbird, have sold over half a million copies worldwide. He cowrote the Broadway musical adaptation of Tuck Everlastingand won the Humanitas Prize for cowriting the Golden Globe and Academy Award–nominated Best Animated Feature Ferdinand, starring John Cena and Kate McKinnon. A former Broadway dancer, Tim was born in San Francisco, grew up in Pittsburgh, and now divides his time between Los Angeles and the internet.