Waiting on Wednesday: Game Changer by Neal Shusterman

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Game Changer by Neal Shusterman.

Waiting on Wednesday features Game Changer by Neal Shusterman. Mr. Shusterman's books are quite popular at TMS and include titles for middle grade and YA. They are twisty, surprising and utterly believable. Here's the publisher synopsis of Game Changer: All it takes is one hit on the football field, and suddenly Ash’s life doesn’t look quite the way he remembers it.

Impossible though it seems, he’s been hit into another dimension—and keeps on falling into universes that are almost-but-not-really his own, each one stranger than the last.

And if he isn’t careful, the world he’s learning to see more clearly could blink out of existence…

Game Changer releases in February, 2021.

#tbt: Hidden Talents by David Lubar

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Hidden Talents by David Lubar. 224 p. Talents #1. TOR/ Macmillan, June, 1999. 

#tbt features Hidden Talents by David Lubar. This first part of a paranormal duology released twenty years ago. It is the story of Martin Anderson, who, having been expelled from every school he's ever attended, has reached the end of the line - Edgeview Alternative School. He finds he's even a misfit there among all the misfits. He does find a tribe and soon discovers the reason behind his and his peers inability to fit in. Each has an unusual ability. An ability that the system thinks makes them freaks. Martin sets out to prove them wrong. Lubar's strength as a writer lies in astute observation of the difficult truths of being a teen while making the reader laugh in either recognition or sympathy.