about the book
Meet “A.” A is a genderless soul…an entity; that is the best way to describe A’s existence. He/She has been on Earth for about six thousand days and now is about the age of a sixteen-year-old. Every night at midnight, he/she switches bodies from one teen to another in a nearby area.
A has been so many different hosts it is hard to keep track—an overweight boy barely able to fit in his car; a suicidal kid; a drug addict; bodies with immoral histories. A’s rule is not to interfere with the lives of the hosts he/she inhabits and to not cause them any harm if it can be helped.
Those rules work, until the day he/she wakes up as Justin, with a girlfriend named Rhiannon. Rhiannon is beautiful, and before he/she knows it, A is falling in love with her. But how can he let himself, knowing that at midnight that night, he could be a she, or some other guy Rhiannon might never come in contact with again?
Can true love reach across the outer appearance and into the inner soul of a being, no matter which body he/she inhabits?
about the author
David Levithan was born in Short Hills, New Jersey. His last name is the result of an immigration official misspelling David’s great-grandfather’s Russian name, “Levitan.”
At nineteen, David received an internship from Scholastic, where he edited the Baby- Sitters Club series and the Star Wars series. At the same time, he attended Brown, majoring in English and political science.
David was often surprised when people would tell him that he was a fantastic dancer, which he is definitely not! The night after graduation, David met David Leventhal, the dancer that he was often mistaken for. David thought the name confusion would make a good book. Working with friend John Green, they wrote Will Grayson, Will Grayson.
David is gay, and for twenty two years he has written a story for his friends for Valentine’s Day. His first story became his first book. He is still with Scholastic as an editorial director and founding editor of Push, an imprint of Scholastic that publishes edgier works from new authors. He lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Sources:
Author website
Author biography : Wikipedia
Author interview : YALSA The Hub
Author interview : The Children’s Book Review
Also by David Levithan:
Two Boys Kissing. Knopf Books for Young Readers. 2013.
Every You, Every Me. Knopf Books for Young Readers. 2011.
The Lover’s Dictionary. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. 2011.
Love is the Higher Law. Knopf Books for Young Readers. 2010.
How They Met and Other Stories. Knopf Books for Young Readers. 2009.
Wide Awake. Aldred A. Knopf. 2008
Marly’s Ghost : A Remix of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. Dial. 2006.
Are We There Yet? Alfred A. Knopf. 2005.
Where We Are, What We See: Poems, Stories, Essays and Art. Push. 2005.
Boy Meets Boy. Random House Children’s Publishing. 2005.
The Realm of Possibility. Alfred A. Knopf. 2004.
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