It's 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives. They've been best friends almost as long - at least, up until last November, when Josh did something that changed everything. Things have been weird between them ever since, but when Josh's family gets a free AOL CD in the mail,his mom makes him bring it over so that Emma can install it on her new computer. When they sign on, they're automatically logged onto their Facebook pages. But Facebook hasn't been invented yet. And they're looking at themselves fifteen years in the future.
By refreshing their pages, they learn that making different decisions now will affect the outcome of their lives later. And as they grapple with the ups and downs of what their futures hold, they're forced to confront what they're doing right - and wrong - in the present.
Jackie says:
This is a shared brain child of two already heavy hitting YA authors--Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why) and Carolyn Mackler (The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things). In a letter to booksellers, the authors say that they decided they may want to work together before they really knew each other. "In one of our first phone conversations, we wondered, 'What if there was a way for teenagers to see who they end up marrying?' That was followed with, 'What if they could see that--and more--on Facebook? Oh, and...check this out...what if Facebook hadn't been invented yet?'".
That's how the story of two teenagers, Josh and Emma, a high school sophomore and junior in 1996, begins (years before Facebook and just as computers were becoming popular), the two having been very good friends until 6 months before (when an ill-timed kiss and a freak-out got in the way of the friendship). Emma gets a computer as a "guilt" present from her father remarries, moves to Florida and has a new baby. Josh's mother sends him over to her house with an AOL free disc (remember those?) to use on it. Once it is loaded in and boots up, it shows Emma her Facebook page--from 2011. Emma lets Josh in on the secret--it turns out he has a page in 2011 too--and the weirdness multiplies. Every time either of them makes a decision based on something they learn on Facebook, it changes their future. This is both alluring and terrifying to the teens, and it's an intense
secret to keep.
This is an unusual book about the price of decisions and their consequences, pointing out the fact that what you do NOW can effect you FOREVER. It's a fabulous read that just sends your mind racing with the possibilities, and the dangers, of what this glitch in time could be.
By refreshing their pages, they learn that making different decisions now will affect the outcome of their lives later. And as they grapple with the ups and downs of what their futures hold, they're forced to confront what they're doing right - and wrong - in the present.
Jackie says:
This is a shared brain child of two already heavy hitting YA authors--Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why) and Carolyn Mackler (The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things). In a letter to booksellers, the authors say that they decided they may want to work together before they really knew each other. "In one of our first phone conversations, we wondered, 'What if there was a way for teenagers to see who they end up marrying?' That was followed with, 'What if they could see that--and more--on Facebook? Oh, and...check this out...what if Facebook hadn't been invented yet?'".
That's how the story of two teenagers, Josh and Emma, a high school sophomore and junior in 1996, begins (years before Facebook and just as computers were becoming popular), the two having been very good friends until 6 months before (when an ill-timed kiss and a freak-out got in the way of the friendship). Emma gets a computer as a "guilt" present from her father remarries, moves to Florida and has a new baby. Josh's mother sends him over to her house with an AOL free disc (remember those?) to use on it. Once it is loaded in and boots up, it shows Emma her Facebook page--from 2011. Emma lets Josh in on the secret--it turns out he has a page in 2011 too--and the weirdness multiplies. Every time either of them makes a decision based on something they learn on Facebook, it changes their future. This is both alluring and terrifying to the teens, and it's an intense
secret to keep.
This is an unusual book about the price of decisions and their consequences, pointing out the fact that what you do NOW can effect you FOREVER. It's a fabulous read that just sends your mind racing with the possibilities, and the dangers, of what this glitch in time could be.
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