Hello, Future Me
Hello, Future Me
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Annotation: A heart-expanding story of hope, friendship, and the power that comes with realizing that magic, like family, doesn't al... more
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #209005
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Copyright Date: 2020
Edition Date: 2020 Release Date: 08/04/20
Pages: 259 pages
ISBN: 1-338-57617-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-338-57617-7
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2019047096
Dimensions: 22 cm.
Language: English
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Kirkus Reviews

Magic helps a 12-year-old girl cope with her parents' impending divorce.June has always been a problem-solver and is quick to tell readers so directly in her lively, conversational narration. She questions her skills, however, when her mother returns from a five-week art retreat with a new guy and her parents decide to divorce. The author tempers June's natural shock, anger, and desire to keep her parents together with her setting, a whimsical locale that celebrates Bigfoot sightings and magic from the newly opened Shop of Last Resort. As June schemes to make her parents love each other again, she also receives a refurbished laptop from this oddities emporium, which connects her via social media to child and young adult versions of herself. While child June shows her burgeoning strains in her parents' relationship, her "Future Me" warns her about intervening. Against her own advice, so to speak, a desperate June tries out some of the shop's unusual spells. The ensuing mishaps not only create intrigue, but allow June to realize and accept that she can't control everything in her life. Particularly lovable throughout these mysterious events are June's dad, a burly, tattooed handyman who's also not afraid to cry, and best friend, Calvin, another supportive male and possible first love interest. Characters default to white in this quirky town located near Oklahoma and Arkansas' Ouachita Mountains.This light fantasy eases the tension of a tough topic. (Fantasy. 8-12)

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Word Count: 49,399
Reading Level: 4.7
Interest Level: 3-6
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.7 / points: 7.0 / quiz: 513615 / grade: Middle Grades

A heart-expanding story of hope, friendship, and the power that comes with realizing that magic, like family, doesn't always look the way you expect it to.

Eleven-year-old June is a problem-solver. Some people might call her a busybody, but that's okay. Just look at all the couples she helped find love! (Grateful newlyweds Marlene and Big Vic have even promised June free hot chocolate for life at their café.)However, when June learns that her parents are getting divorced, she has to face the fact that there are some problems too big even for her. At least, that's what the adults in her life keep saying.But June's convinced there's a way to make her parents fall back in love. While brainstorming ideas on her new secondhand laptop -- purchased from a mysterious store in town called The Shop of Last Resort -- June gets a strange IM from someone named JuniePie28 . . . someone who claims to be an older version of June messaging her from the future.At first, she assumes it's a prank. But JuniePie28 knows too much about June's life to be a fraud, and future June warns her against interfering with her parents' marriage. But June can't just sit around and watch her parents' marriage dissolve, not when there's a magical shop in town that could be the answer to all her problems! Will June prove her older self wrong and stop the divorce? Or will she have to accept that there are some things she can't control?


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