Bick, Ilsa J. White Space. New York: Egmont, 2014. Print. ISBN: 978-1-60684-419-9. $18.99, Ages 14+
Formats Available: Hardback, softcover, eBook, Audio
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Annotation: Emma Lindsay's short story may not be her own. Will she discover the reasons behind all of these strange happenings, or will the real writer of White Space take control of her ending?
Booktalk: Emma Lindsay's problems are like no one else she knows. She has a skull made of metal and is experiencing these strange lapses in time or as she calls them, 'blinks", where she enters into someone else's life but can't seem to remember how she got there, or what went on while she was gone. On top of these strange occurrences, she's recently submitted a short story called "White Space" for class that her teacher seems to think she's ripped off from a dead author's inaccessible work. Confident that she's never read anything by this author, Emma's life and her trips during her blinks are beginning to unravel before her. It seems like the story she's written is unfolding before her eyes. As the characters in her story begin to come alive in the strange events that begin to take place, follow Emma as she tries to figure her way out of this foggy, bizarre experience known as White Space.
White Space is a story told in an nontraditional pattern and will suck the reader in after just the first page. If you think Emma's story seems like something from a different world, wait until you meet the other characters that all play into the emergence of white space and the race against time. Is this real life? Do these people exist or are they a fabrication from an alternate world?
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