The Boy from Tomorrow
Discover the middle-grade debut Kirkus Reviews calls "spellbinding" by an award-winning author Booklist says "has crafted a definite winner."
Josie and Alec both live at 444 Sparrow Street. They sleep in the same room, but they've never laid eyes on each other. They are twelve years old and a hundred years apart.
The children meet through a hand-painted talking board--Josie in 1915, Alec in 2015--and form a friendship across the century that separates them. But a chain of events leave Josie and her little sister Cass trapped in the house and afraid for their safety, and Alec must find out what's going to happen to them.
Can he help them change their future when it's already past?
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Camille DeAngelis is the author of several novels for adults--each of them as full of impossible things as The Boy From Tomorrow--as well as a travel guide to Ireland and a book of nonfiction called Life Without Envy: Ego Management for Creative People. Her young adult novel Bones & All won an Alex Award from the American Library Association in 2016. Camille loves knitting, sewing, yoga, and baking vegan cupcakes. She lives in New England.
"You will fall in love with DeAngelis' characters and root for their impossible friendship across time. Perfect for fans of historical fiction, this spine-tingling paranormal novel is impossible to put down." --Marika McCoola, author of the award-winning and New York Times-bestselling Baba Yaga's Assistant
--Marika McCoola"In The Boy From Tomorrow Camille DeAngelis creates an atmosphere of comforting nostalgia without falling into old-fashioned cliches. It's a carefully paced and lovingly crafted book that will draw readers for many years to come, and I enjoyed it ever so much." --Mackenzi Lee, author of the award-winning and New York Times-bestselling The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
--Mackenzi Lee"Josie and Alec's story is an unusual ghost tale. Through an odd warp in time, the pair, who both live in the same house 100 years apart, can speak to each other through a Ouija board, the wax cylinders of an old record player, and a cache of letters. As they grow closer, Alec (in 2015) begins to fear that Josie (in 1915) and her younger sister, Cassie, are in danger from their mother. The glamorous Lavinia Clifford is a wealthy spiritualist who communes with the dead. She also keeps her daughters virtual prisoners in their room, and often punishes Cassie cruelly. Alec is shaken when he finds a local grave, engraved simply Clifford, that appears to be a child's. Can he convince Josie that she needs to contact her old governess and escape? Can Alec change the past, and therefore the future? Creepy and intriguing, DeAngelis' middle-grade novel will appeal to readers who enjoy chills as well as puzzles. The Alex Award-winning author of Bones & All (2015) has crafted a definite winner." -- Karen Cruze
--Booklist"The narrative is excellent... An immersive read oozing with cross-genre appeal for realistic, historical, mystery, and scary fiction readers." --School Library Journal
--School Library Journal"The delicious possibilities of time travel burst vividly in this beautifully crafted tale." --Martha Brockenbrough, award-winning author of The Game of Love and Death
--Martha Brockenbrough"Spellbinding." --Kirkus Reviews
--Kirkus Reviews"Camille DeAngelis's The Boy from Tomorrow is a complex and beautiful puzzle of times and places that comes together in a way that is a little bit eerie, a little bit sad, and a little bit hopeful... a thoroughly enjoyable fantasy that will appeal to a wide range of readers, all of whom will find it difficult to put down." --Foreword Reviews
--Foreword Reviews"Fans of historical fiction and ghost stories will devour this title, and those new to either genre will find it a heady introduction." --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
