First published 2024
Michael Rosario lives in Fox Run Apartments in Red Knot, Delaware, where his biggest concerns are Y2K preparations and his crush on Gibby, his fifteen-year-old babysitter. Then Ridge appears. This disoriented teenager claims to be the world's first time traveler, and Michael and Gibby find themselves drawn into his strange story. Ridge explores 1999 with wonder, marveling at microwaves and basketballs as if seeing them for the first time. But Ridge carries something that transforms Michael's curiosity into obsession: a book that details the next twenty years of history. Michael realizes this book could solve all his problems about preparing for an uncertain future. The question becomes how far he will go to possess it, and what he might sacrifice in the process.
Genres: science-fiction, coming-of-age, fantasy, time-travel
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: Fox Run Apartments, Red Knot, Delaware
Period: 1999, 2019
272 pages · Hardcover · Greenwillow Books