YA New York

It seems this autumn is going to be chock full of glorious books. Yesterday Carol Snow released her first novel for teens, Switch.

Claire Martin is a perfectly normal 15-year-old girl in Sandyland. Except for the fact that her dead grandmother has been lurking in her bedroom since she was an infant. Oh, and also except for the fact that whenever there’s a big thunderstorm she switches into someone else’s body. The thunderstorms are usually at night, and she usually has only to go to sleep to wake back up in her own body.

But one day she finds herself in the body of a gorgeous (but snobby) summer visitor, and she can’t seem to get out.

It’s a fun story, well-told, and most definitely an enjoyable read. Indeed, I remember being quite annoyed when I received the book in May, swallowed it down whole, and then looked to see that the release date was in September. “I’ll never make it to September,” I thought. But here we are — I kept the book in a safe place, and last night I re-read it to refresh my memory. It’s still as much fun now as it was in May.

Oooh. And Carol has another book set in Sandyland coming next year, though from the looks of it, it may not be a sequel. (Question: Where is Sandyland? It’s a sleepy beachside community with no movie theater, but with lots of summer guests. I kept imagining the Jersey shore, but then when I re-read it I thought maybe it was somewhere in California. After you read it, will you tell me where you think this Sandyland place is?)

Buy Switch from Amazon.com.

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