Future Imperfect Contributor(s): Breese, K. Ryer (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312641516 ISBN-13: 9780312641511 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin OUR PRICE: $20.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Science Fiction - General - Young Adult Fiction | Action & Adventure - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2010043622 |
Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.57" W x 8.2" (0.62 lbs) 320 pages |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 143929 Reading Level: 4.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Ade Patience can see the future and it's destroying his life. When the seventeen-year-old Mantlo High School student knocks himself unconscious, he can see days and decades into his own future. Ade's the best of Denver's divination underground and eager to join the heralded Mantlo Diviners, a group of similarly enabled teens. Yet, unlike the Diviners, Ade Patience doesn't see the future out of curiosity or good will; Ade gives himself concussions because he's addicted to the high, the Buzz, he gets when he breaks the laws of physics. And while there have been visions he's wanted to change, Ade knows the Rule: You can't change the future, no matter how hard you try. His memory is failing, his grades are in a death spiral, and both Ade's best friend and his shrink are begging him to stop before he kills himself. Ade knows he needs to straighten-out. Luckily, the stunning Vauxhall Rodolfo has just transferred to Mantlo and, as Ade has seen her in a vision two years previously, they're going to fall in love. It's just the motivation Ade needs to kick his habit. Only things are a bit more complicated. Vauxhall has an addiction of her own, and, after a a vision in which he sees Vauxhall's close friend, Jimmy, drown while he looks on seemingly too wasted to move, Ade realizes that he must break the one rule he's been told he can't. The pair must overcome their addictions and embrace their love for each other in order to do the impossible: change the future. |
Contributor Bio(s): Breese, K. Ryer: - K. Ryer Breese lives in Denver and is a critic for American Movie Classics' Filmcritic.com. Breese is the author of Future Imperfect and Past Continuous. |