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Wednesday Books
December 2017
On Sale: November 21, 2017
320 pages ISBN: 1250142105 EAN: 9781250142108 Kindle: B0722MRCCS Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult
Elliot Gabaroche is very clear on what she isn't going to do
this summer. 1. She isn't going to stay home in Sacramento, where she'd
have to sit through her stepmother's sixth community theater
production of The Importance of Being Earnest. 2. She isn't going to mock trial camp at UCLA. 3. And she certainly isn't going to the Air Force summer
program on her mom's base in Colorado Springs. As cool as it
would be to live-action-role-play Ender's Game,
Ellie's seen three generations of her family go through USAF
boot camp up close, and she knows that it's much less
Luke/Yoda/"feel the force," and much more one hundred
push-ups on three days of no sleep. And that just isn't
appealing, no matter how many Xenomorphs from Alien
she'd be able to defeat afterwards. What she is going to do is pack up her determination,
her favorite Octavia Butler novels, and her Jordans, and run
away to summer camp. Specifically, a cutthroat
academic-decathlon-like competition for a full scholarship
to Rayevich College—the only college with a Science Fiction
Literature program, and her dream school. She's also going
to start over as Ever Lawrence: a new name for her new
beginning. She's even excited spend her summer with the
other nerds and weirdos in the completion, like her
socially-awkward roommate with neon-yellow hair, and a boy
who seriously writes on a typewriter and is way cuter than
is comfortable or acceptable. The only problem with her excellent plan to secretly win the
scholarship and a ticket to her future: her golden-child,
super-genius cousin Isaiah has had the same idea, and has
shown up at Rayevich smugly ready to steal her dreams and
expose her fraud in the process. This summer's going to be great.
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