Switch Av A.S. King

<b>A surreal and timely novel about the effects of isolation and what it means to be connected to the world from the Printz Award-winning author of <i>Dig</i>.</b><br><br>Time has stopped. It''s been June 23, 2020 for nearly a year as far as anyone can tell. Frantic adults demand teenagers focus on finding practical solutions to the worldwide crisis. Not everyone is on board though. Javelin-throwing prodigy Truda Becker is pretty sure her "Solution Time" class won''t solve the world''s problems, but she does have a few ideas what might. Truda lives in a house with a switch that no one ever touches, a switch her father protects every day by nailing it into hundreds of progressively larger boxes. But Truda''s got a crow bar, and one way or another, she''s going to see what happens when she flips the switch.