A Year without Autumn
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
If you could see into the future - would you look?
Jenni Green doesn't have a choice. On her way to visit her best friend, Autumn, Jenni suddenly finds she's been transported exactly one year forward in time.
Now she discovers that in the year that's gone by, tragedy has struck and her friendship with Autumn will never be the same again. But what caused the tragedy? How did Jenni skip a year? And can she find her way back to the past to try to change what lies ahead?
With humour - and her customary light touch - the author of the EMILY
WINDSNAP books plays a fascinating game with time, and explores the
changes that take place in friendships and families in the aftermath of a
disaster.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Every summer 12-year-old Jenni looks forward to her family's vacation at Riverside Village it means spending the days with her buoyant and optimistic best friend, Autumn, and her family. But this year, a fateful elevator trip somehow transports Jenni one year into the future, and much has changed. It turns out that just hours after Jenni "left" the previous summer, Autumn's younger brother, Mikey, was thrown from a horse and has been in a coma ever since, his family struggling to keep it together. As Jenni gradually pieces together what happened to her (and gets increasingly dire glimpses of the future through subsequent trips in the elevator), she works to return to the present and possibly avert Mikey's accident. Kessler (the Emily Windsnap series) isn't interested in the mechanics of time travel or even "why" Jenni's time slip has occurred (as Jenni reflects, "What matters is the fact that it has"). Rather, it's a vehicle, occasionally heavy-handed but effective, for her story's empowering message: "Don't just accept the life you're given.... Question everything. Always attempt the impossible." Ages 9 12.
