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From the Printz Award-winning author of Dig comes a “poignant, propulsive, and profound” (Publishers Weekly) novel about the effects of isolation and what it means to be connected to the world.

“Timely and extraordinary.”—School Library Journal, starred review

Time has stopped.

It’s been June 23, 2020, for nearly a year, as far as anyone can tell. Frantic adults demand that teenagers focus on finding practical solutions to the worldwide crisis. Not everyone is on board though. Javelin-throwing prodigy Truda Becker is pretty sure her “Solution Time” class won’t solve the world’s problems, but she does have a few ideas what might. Truda lives in a house with a switch that no one ever touches, a switch her father protects every day by nailing it into hundreds of progressively larger boxes. But Truda’s got a crowbar, and one way or another, she’s going to see what happens when she flips the switch. Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic Depression & Mental Health Difficult Situations Family Family & Relationships Fantasy Literature & Fiction Mental Health Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Critic reviews

“Timely and extraordinary, teen readers will find themselves immersed in this timeless world.”—School Library Journal, starred review

“An unsettling but emotionally resonant novel for our own unsettling times.”—Bookpage, starred review

“King explores the meaning of time and the toxicity of family secrets. This inventive, surreal novel’s dedication, ‘For the class of 2020,’ makes a direct address to real-life teens’ ‘lost’ [pandemic] year.”—The Horn Book, starred review

“A work of literary genius.”—Booklist

“Printz Award winner King returns with another surrealist masterpiece.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Poignant, propulsive, and profound.”—Publishers Weekly
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This book is amazing, the intresting story makes you follow Truda along with her Plutchik's clock idea. May we all find our own time!

The woman of thought

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This book does an excellent job of reframing the lessons a reader may pick up from Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5 and reframes it into a story about a teenage girl learning how to help her and her family heal, while taking its own spin on time manipulation as a device to understand how to break free of the lies we tell ourselves.

Slaughterhouse 5 for Young Adults & Youth

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