A Year Without Autumn
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4.4 • 53 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Jenni Green’s family vacation has finally arrived! Even though she has to deal with her annoying little brother, her slightly overbearing dad, and her very pregnant mom, she gets to spend a week with her bestest friend in the world, Autumn. But twelve-year-old Jenni’s world turns upside down when she takes an old elevator to visit Autumn and discovers that everything has changed: not only is her friend in a different condo, but tragedy has struck Autumn’s family, Jenni’s mother has had her baby, and everyone is a year older. When Jenni realizes that the elevator caused her to skip a whole year, she tries to go back, but soon finds that fixing things won’t be as easy as pressing a button. How can she alter the past and keep her family and Autumn’s from falling apart? With honesty and insight, Liz Kessler explores how the bonds of family and friendship can endure through time.
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.
Customer Reviews
I love it
I've read this book at least a million times and it is truly the best book I have ever read. This book and author are the best. I would definitely recommend this book to all ages and no matter what type of books u like believe me you'll drop those books and head for this one. In my opinion it is the best book ever.
Love it
I really love this book. All the twists and turns the book has the reader very interested. The book is also very well written and perfectly describes what is running through Jenni’s head.
Worst book ever!
This deserves -9,000,000 stars