Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Waiting on Wednesday: Switch by A.S. King

Switch by A. S. King. 240 p. Dutton Young Readers/ Penguin Young Readers Group, May 11, 2021. 9780525555513.

Waiting on Wednesday features Switch by A. S. King. Ms. King won the Printz Award last year for her novel, Dig. She is one of only two authors who have won both a Printz Award and a Printz Honor. The publisher promises a "surreal and timely novel about isolation and human connection."

"Time has stopped. It’s been June 23, 2020 for nearly a year as far as anyone can tell. Frantic adults demand teenagers focus on finding practical solutions to the worldwide crisis. Not everyone is on board though. Javelin-throwing prodigy Truda Becker is pretty sure her “Solution Time” class won’t solve the world’s problems, but she does have a few ideas what might. Truda lives in a house with a switch that no one ever touches, a switch her father protects every day by nailing it into hundreds of progressively larger boxes. But Truda’s got a crow bar, and one way or another, she’s going to see what happens when she flips the switch.

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