In fiction, time can bend in unpredictable ways. There are classic time travel stories, which send characters to the faraway past or catapult them to a distant future. Other characters are sent back in time to a recent event in their lives. Some characters don't travel at all. Instead, they are stuck in a time loop, repeating the same day or even year. The books below feature teens in extraordinary, time bending realities.
Silas is a college freshman and an astrophysics major who suffers from uncontrollable time travel episodes. Periodically, he is forced into his pre-transition body to relive moments from his past. Silas is positive he is an anomaly until he meets Jude, who suffers from the same symptoms. Silas and Jude face their cosmic circumstances together in this slow-burn sci-fi romance.
Morning after morning, Laurie wakes up in the same girl's body, behind the wheel of the same car that is barreling down the same highway. In every time loop, he is helped by a stranger named Gideon, and the two have a magnetic chemistry. Laurie has no idea how to break the time loop. He hardly remembers any details about his own life. All he knows is he has limited time to get back in the right body.
When Emma wishes for proof that love is real, she begins receiving love letters from the future. The sender claims to be the love of her life and mentions secrets only Emma knows. With the help of her best friend Delia, Emma tries to uncover the identity of her secret admirer in a funny, fast-paced story about the power of love.
Nora, an eighteen-year-old autistic artist, travels to France in the middle of a pandemic to spread her mother's ashes. A violent and unexpected turn of events sends Nora back in time to 1946. Disoriented by the time travel, she is admitted to an asylum. As Nora copes with her new reality, she makes deep connections and processes her complicated relationship with her late mother.
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