{"id":3077,"date":"2016-11-12T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2021-07-06T13:31:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T20:31:36","slug":"future-shock-teen-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2016\/future-shock-teen-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Shock &#8211; teen review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Review by Hadley Willman, grade 11<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><em>Future Shock\u00a0<\/em>by Elizabeth Briggs<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not to be confused with the famous 1970 novel of the same name, <em>Future Shock<\/em> is a story about\u00a0Elena Martinez, a foster child just a few months away from turning eighteen, being kicked out of the system, and forced to make her own way on the streets of Los Angeles as an adult. Her problem? She doesn\u2019t have any money to go to college, let alone a job. Out of the blue, a woman shows up at her foster home and offers her thousands if she\u2019ll partake in a few hours of unnamed work the next day at Aether Corporation, a high-tech company that wouldn\u2019t seem to need help from a teenage girl in any of their work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although it sounds sketchy, Elena agrees because she needs the money. She shows up the next day and winds up being sent \u00a0into the future to take 24 hours worth of notes working alongside four other teens who are likewise looking for the holy grail of paychecks. Despite Aether\u2019s warnings, they each end up looking into the fates of their future selves, which sends them spiraling into a race against the clock that may just make or break the future they\u2019re trying to prepare by working this job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overall, this book has well-rounded characters, each with their own separate quirks and personalities, the perfect touch of romance and betrayal, the wonderful premise of time travel and its repercussions, and a plot with no loose ends. From personal experience, this is the kind of book that will leave you reading it straight through in one session. Your other priorities will be pushed aside. This is the perfect read for those who need an escape from homework, chores, and real life in general. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5\/5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Find this book in our catalog:<a href=\"https:\/\/pasadena.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/default\/search\/detailnonmodal\/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:245204\/one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> Future Shock<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Call Number:\u00a0YA SF BRIGGS,E<\/p>\n<p>265 pages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review by Hadley Willman, grade 11 Future Shock\u00a0by Elizabeth Briggs Not to be confused with the famous 1970 novel of the same name, Future Shock is a story about\u00a0Elena Martinez, a foster child just a few months away from turning eighteen, being kicked out of the system, and forced to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":3078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-teen-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/sites\/18\/2016\/07\/26722944.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ZwbD-ND","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4991,"url":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2019\/love-me-love-me-not-teen-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":3077,"position":0},"title":"Love Me, Love Me Not &#8212; Teen Review","author":"Teen Blogger","date":"March 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"review by Ashley Zhang, age 13 Love Me, Love Me Not\u00a0by\u00a0S.M. 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