The Thing About Jellyfish (National Book Award Finalist) Benjamin, Ali

Get all the key plot points of Ali Benjamin's The Thing About Jellyfish on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes.. About the Author Ali Benjamin is a National Book Award Finalist for The Thing About Jellyfish, and the co-writer for HIV-positive teen Paige Rawl's coming-of-age memoir Positive as well as Tim Howard's New York Times bestseller The Keeper.

Parents need to know that The Thing About Jellyfish is a coming-of-age story about seventh-grader Suzy Swanson, whose best friend has just died by drowning. Death and grief are explored in nongraphic, literary detail. Suzy's a great role model for scientific inquiry, and there's a lot of educational.. Jellyfish have drifted along on ocean currents for millions of years, even before dinosaurs lived on the Earth. The jellylike creatures pulse along on ocean currents and are abundant in cold and warm ocean water, in deep water, and along coastlines. But despite their name, jellyfish aren't actually fish—they're invertebrates, or animals with no backbones. Jellyfish have tiny stinging cells.