The Future of US
Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · October 16, 2012
“A literary super-duo.”—Los Angeles Times “A clever, timely story that will attract any teen with a Facebook account.”—Booklist, starred review Josh and Emma are about to discover themselves—fifteen years in the future.
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- Who it’s for
- A layered, classroom-adjacent YA romance with a polished, keepsake feel.
- Genres
- Coming of Age, Contemporary YA Romance, Friendship for Teens
- Published
- Penguin Young Readers Group, October 16, 2012
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“A literary super-duo.”—Los Angeles Times “A clever, timely story that will attract any teen with a Facebook account.”—Booklist, starred review Josh and Emma are about to discover themselves—fifteen years in the future. 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 everything changed.
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Things have been awkward ever since, but when Josh's family gets a free AOL CD-ROM 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 Facebook . . . but Facebook hasn't been invented yet. Josh and Emma are looking at themselves fifteen years in the future. Their spouses, careers, homes, and status updates—it's all there. And every time they refresh their pages, their futures change. As they grapple with the ups and downs of what their lives hold, they're forced to confront what they're doing right—and wrong—in the present.
Quietly Polished
A layered, classroom-adjacent YA romance with a polished, keepsake feel.
Come here for
- serious YA romance
- giftable, display-friendly presence
Expect
- contemporary love story
- immersion over spectacle
Where it sits
| Friendship for Teens | 48% |
|---|---|
| Contemporary YA Romance | 44% |
| Coming of Age | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Science & Tech for Teens
- Dating & Sex for Teens
- Emotions & Feelings for Teens
- Authors
- Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- October 16, 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Science & Tech for Teens