{"product_id":"switch-9780525555537","title":"Switch","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eDig\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTime 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA.S. King is the award-winning author of many acclaimed books for young readers. Her novel \u003ci\u003eDig\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2020 Michael L. Printz Award, and\u003ci\u003e Ask The Passengers \u003c\/i\u003ewon the 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ecalled her \"one of the best YA writers working today.\" King lives with her family in Pennsylvania, where she returned after living on a farm and teaching adult literacy in Ireland for more than a decade. www.as-king.com\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dutton Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50383596224786,"sku":"9780525555537","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1ae7e0e4-19c7-434b-a0cc-52eb6f523e5a.jpg?v=1768913121","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/switch-9780525555537","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}