The Boy from Tomorrow [Hardcover]

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 theyve never laid eyes on each other. They are twelve years old and a hundred years apart.

The children meet through a hand-painted talking boardJosie in 1915, Alec in 2015and 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 whats going to happen to them.?

Can he help them change their future when its already past?

In 1915, eleven-year-old Josie Clifford lives in a home in Edwardstown with her little sister, their young tutor, and their mother, a psychic medium celebrated and feared by their community. In the summer of 2015, twelve-year-old Alec Frost moves into the same Edwardstown home with his mother. One day, Alec discovers a hand-painted spirit board in a forgotten drawer in the old house. He uses the board one night and accidentally contacts Josie and her sister in 1915.?

Over the next few spirit board sessions Josie and Alec realize they are living in the same house a century apart, and they form a close friendship. When Josies mother discovers what Josies been up to, she becomes intent on using what Alec knows to further her own reputation. Alec must use his knowledge from 2015, and what he finds out about the girls, to help save them from their cruel mother.?

Camille DeAngelis is the author of several novels for adults—each of them as full of impossible things asThe Boy From Tomorrow—as well as a travel guide to Ireland and a book of nonfiction calledLife Without Envy: Ego Management for Creative People. Her young adult novelBones & Allwon an Alex Award from the American Library Association in 2016lĂ2