The Future of Us Hardcover - 2011

by Jay Asher; Carolyn Mackler

It's 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives. They've been best friends almost as long - at least, up until last November, when Josh did something that changed everything. Things have been weird between them ever since, but when Josh's family gets a free AOL CD in the mail,his mom makes him bring it over so that Emma can install it on her new computer. When they sign on, they're automatically logged onto their Facebook pages. But Facebook hasn't been invented yet. And they're looking at themselves fifteen years in the future.

By refreshing their pages, they learn that makingdifferent decisions now will affect the outcomeof their lives later. And as they grapple with theups and downs of what their futures hold, they'reforced to confront what they're doing right - andwrong - in the present.AUTHOR BIO:Jay Asher's first novel, Thirteen Reasons Why, spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list, with foreign rights sold in over 30 countries and more than 1,000,000 copies in print in the US alone. Visit his website at www.jayasher.blogspot.com and follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/jayasherguy.

Carolyn Mackler (www.carolynmackler.com) is the authorof the teen novels The Earth, My Butt, and Other BigRound Things (A Michael L. Printz Honor Book), Tangled,Guyaholic, Vegan Virgin Valentine, and Love and OtherFour-Letter Words. In 2008, Carolyn was a judge for theNational Book Award for Young People's Literature. Shelives in New York City with her husband and two youngsons.