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“What would you do if you woke up 6 months in the future with no memory of how or why? Elise is trying to solve not only the how and why she woke up 6 months after her twelfth birthday but also why her two best friends, Melinda and Ivy, are no longer speaking to her, when she joined photography club, and who left a locket at her front door. With the help of Cora, her best friend from grade school, she starts investigating. Woven within the mystery of Elise's time travel are the questions every middle schooler asks themselves: who am I, who is my community, and who can I trust. With sections that switch from Elise to Cora, you get the full picture of what is going on in each girl's mind and how something that should be easy (friendship) can come with so many land mines. And with a wonderfully heartwarming twist at the end, middle grade readers will love A Split Second.”
— Julie • Roundabout Books
New York Times bestselling author Janae Marks delivers a stunningly crafted and twisty mystery about the tests of friendships that examines what matters most when everything can change in a split second—perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead and Anne Ursu.
That clock can’t be right. When Elise wakes up the morning after her birthday celebration, she’s surprised to find herself in her bedroom. Last she can remember, she had fallen asleep next to her best friends at her slumber party in her basement, and it was October. But now she’s alone, and her phone says it’s April 8. Elise doesn’t understand. How could she have woken up six months later?
No one else is acting like anything strange has happened, yet Elise can't remember the last half year. To make matters worse, her friends refuse to talk to her and Elise doesn't know why. She also has no idea how she got signed up for photography club or why her former best friend, Cora, is talking to her again. Is it a memory problem? Could it be magic? Every day that passes takes Elise further from the world she knew. Thankfully, Elise has Cora to lean on in this new reality, and the two come together to investigate why Elise woke up in the future—and, more important, how to get her back to her past and away from this nightmare.
Janae Marks is the author of the critically acclaimed novel From the Desk of Zoe Washington, the New York Times bestselling On Air with Zoe Washington, and A Soft Place to Land. She grew up in the New York City suburbs and now lives in Connecticut with her husband and daughter. She has an MFA in writing for children from the New School. Visit Janae online at janaemarks.com.