Grades 7+
400 pages
It's the year 2052. The world is trapped in an endless, ever-augmenting cycle of droughts, superstorms, heat domes, and polar vortexes. But life goes on, at least for now.
Stevie, an 18-year-old Cherokee girl, works at the gift shop of the Modern Museum of Art in Texas to save up money for college. In her free time, she develops her photography skills and takes care of her family, especially her little brother Levi, who suffers from a serious allergy. Despite the turmoil around her, Stevie does her best to plan for a future she's not sure will be waiting for her.
Adam is the mysterious new art intern at the museum. At first, things seem normal. Though Adam isn't forthcoming about himself, he tells Stevie that he's indigenous Costa Rican, and they begin to bond over a love of art and their shared Native values. But just as Levi receives a horrifying diagnosis, the truth comes out: Adam is really from the year 2201, nearly 150 years in the future, and he's here to save Native art pieces from the past before they're destroyed during an upcoming series of catastrophes. The world is about to weather utter chaos in the form of even worse climate disasters, a pandemic, and a war that, all together, will decimate the global population. The apocalypse has arrived.
Yet hope remains: though things are about to get a whole lot worse, humanity takes it as a final warning, cleans up its act, repairs the planet, creates world peace… and even develops a cure for Levi's terminal condition.
Adam tells Stevie that in order to survive what's coming, she must escape to her family's reservation in Oklahoma. But can she really say goodbye to Adam when this is all over? And her precious brother Levi is doomed in this timeline, no matter what. Stevie is determined to move heaven and earth for him…
Even if that means risking the future.
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