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The Future of Us

Audiobook
1 of 1 copy available
1 of 1 copy available
It's 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the Internet.
Emma just got her first computer and an America Online CD-ROM.
Josh is her best friend. They power up and log on—and discover themselves on Facebook, fifteen years in the future.
Everybody wonders what their Destiny will be. Josh and Emma are about to find out.
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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Mary Ellen Cravens and Steven Kaplan team up to read this story about two teens in 1996 who install a CD-ROM from AOL and find themselves on a Web site called Facebook, which allows them to glimpse their lives 15 years in the future. The chapters alternate points of view between Emma (read by Cravens) and Josh (read by Kaplan), and the narrators keep the tones of both characters fairly consistent, with Emma as an excitable teenage girl, and Josh as her more grounded friend. Cravens and Kaplan make convincing teenagers, and they handle the adult voices admirably as well. The teens' moms and dads--with just the right tones of maturity in their voices--sound like stereotypical overprotective parents. E.N. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from September 12, 2011
      With collaborators like these, readers expect an ingenious hook, compelling characters, and thought-provoking content, and these two top-of-their-game authors don’t disappoint. It’s 1996, and high school junior Emma and her neighbor Josh are BFFs until an awkward, romantic moment creates tension. Then Emma gets a new computer and an AOL CD-ROM, which somehow allow her to access her future Facebook page when she goes online. She and Josh are able to read about what their lives will be like in 15 years, but what’s more, they discover that they can affect those future lives by their thoughts and actions in the present, a sobering realization with far-reaching consequences for the teenagers. Asher and Mackler’s concept is fascinating—how closely today is tied to tomorrow—and the alternating voices of the two main characters keep each chapter fresh and provide distinct perspectives on the events of the story. Though readers will not necessarily be surprised by how things turn out, the enjoyment—and the underlying message—is in simply allowing the journey to unfold. Ages 12–up.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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  • ATOS Level:4.4
  • Lexile® Measure:690
  • Interest Level:9-12(UG)
  • Text Difficulty:3

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