Game Changer (B&N Exclusive Edition)

by Neal Shusterman

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

After getting concussed in a football game, 17-year-old Ash finds that his world seems slightly different. Suddenly, Ash is traveling through alternate universes, experiencing society through a different lens in each. Neal Schusterman’s writing is compulsively readable and the timely social issues addressed throughout the story will give readers much to think about as they dive further into Ash's experiences in each new reality.

This ambitious, high-concept novel from the National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of the Arc of a Scythe series is an unparalleled story of parallel universes—and the realities we must learn to question.
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All it takes is one hit on the football field, and suddenly Ash’s life doesn’t look quite the way he remembers it. Impossible though it seems, he’s been hit into another dimension—and keeps on bouncing through worlds that are almost-but-not-really his own.

The changes in his world start small, but quickly spiral out of control as he ends up in universes where he has everything he’s ever wanted, universes where society is stuck in the past, and universes where he finds himself as someone he’s never had to consider before.

And if he isn’t careful, the world he’s learning to see more clearly could blink out of existence…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780063094802
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	02/09/2021
Edition description:	B&N Exclusive Edition
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	9,452
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.60(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

Neal Shusterman is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author. He is the author of Challenger Deep, a National Book Award winner, Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor Book, and recipient of six starred reviews; Bruiser, which was a Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choice, a YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults pick, and on twelve state lists; and the Unwind dystology (includiung Thunder Head and Scythe), among many other books. He lives in California with his family.

Editorial Reviews

"It's a testament to Shusterman's storytelling powers that he is able to develop a cohesive narrative across these multiple shifts, exploring the subtle nuances of how they affect not only Ash but the entire supporting cast."

Horn Book Magazine

"Shusterman has an eye for clever concepts and a masterful control of pace." 

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"The conceit behind Shusterman’s latest is truly unique. While it exhibits the author’s usual storytelling aplomb, it also manages to delve into more serious and timely subject matter, such as racism, sexism, and homophobia. Despite these heavy topics, the story still moves at a lively pace and, thanks to a zany sci-fi twist, manages to pack in a few laughs as well."

Booklist

"Shusterman has an eye for clever concepts and a masterful control of pace." 

Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

"Shusterman has an eye for clever concepts and a masterful control of pace." 

Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

"National Book Award winner Neal Shusterman's Game Changer is a brilliantly mind-bending YA work of speculative fiction...Shusterman fictionalizes these big issues while simultaneously making connections to our own reality, prompting readers to question how their own biases and privilege might distort their perception of the world. Game Changer is a book with a sense of humor and an existential bent that is overflowing with biting social commentary and aphoristic wisdom. Easy to read, with perspective-altering drama, this novel is on track to become the go-to contemporary fable for this generation of readers."

Shelf Awareness (starred review)