Liar

The Smartest Kid in the Universe

If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period

Shiverton Hall

Words of Stone

Those Kids from Fawn Creek

Hundred Percent

Malcolm Under the Stars

This is Not the Jess Show

Like many teens, sometimes it feels as though everything in Jess Flynn's life has been engineered for maximum drama--from her performance at the school talent show, to the reappearance of her childhood best friend and perennial crush Jeremy, to her friends trying to set her up with one of the hottest guys in school. It's almost as if everything might finally be going her way...until one day a tiny black phone with an apple logo on its screen falls out of her best friend's backpack and lands at Jess's feet.

The problem is, it's 1998, and the first iPhone isn't due out for another nine years.

Jess's friends refuse to acknowledge the strange device. Her sister Sara, on hospice care with a terminal blood disease, for once can't tell Jess what she should do. It's almost as if everyone is hiding something from her. Even her beloved dog Fuller seems different...like, literally different, because he definitely didn't have that same pattern of spots on his stomach last week...

Nothing in Jess Flynn's world is as it seems, and as the cracks begin to show, Jess will discover her entire life is nothing more than someone else's entertainment. Except in this reality, the outside world is no place anyone would want to escape to.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Liar

Janine Amos, 1990

The Smartest Kid in the Universe

Chris Grabenstein, 2020

If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period

Gennifer Choldenko, 2007

Shiverton Hall

Emerald Fennell, 2012

Words of Stone

Kevin Henkes, 1992

Those Kids from Fawn Creek

Erin Entrada Kelly, 2022

Hundred Percent

Karen Romano Young, 2016

Malcolm Under the Stars

Brian Lies, W.H. Beck, 2015