Taylor Before and After

Taylor Before and After

by Jennie Englund and Camille Kellogg
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 18/02/2020

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In journal entries alternating between two timelines—before and after a tragic accident—Jennie Englund's heartfelt coming-of-age story, Taylor Before and After follows the year that changes one girl’s life forever.


Before, Taylor Harper is finally popular, sitting with the cool kids at lunch, and maybe, just maybe, getting invited to the biggest, most exclusive party of the year.


After, no one talks to her.


Before, she’s friends with Brielle Branson, the coolest girl in school.


After, Brielle has become a bully, and Taylor’s her favorite target.


Before, home isn’t perfect, but at least her family is together.


After, Mom won’t get out of bed, Dad won’t stop yelling, and Eli...


Eli’s gone.


Through everything, Taylor has her notebook, a diary of the year that one fatal accident tears her life apart. In entries alternating between the first and second semester of her eighth-grade year, she navigates joy and grief, gain and loss, hope and depression.


How can Taylor pick up the pieces of what used to be her social life? How can her house ever feel like home again after everything that’s happened? And how can she move forward if she can’t stop looking back?


An Imprint Book


"Powerful... A resonant look at coming-of-age." —Kirkus Reviews


A Junior Library Guild Selection

ISBN:
9781250171887
9781250171887
Category:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
18-02-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Imprint
Jennie Englund

Taylor Before and After tells the story of middle schooler Taylor Harper through journal entries alternating between two timelines: before and after a drunk driving accident, in which Taylor Harper was a passenger—and her brother was the driver.

Before, Taylor was finally becoming popular, navigating the pressures of friends, frenemies, and a cut-throat initiation challenge by the coolest girl in school. After, she finds herself ostracized, bullied, and facing the glaring silence of things unsaid at school (and at home).

Debut author Jennie Englund writes with compassion and empathy, moving fluidly from effervescence to quiet reflection in this tale of grief, depression, loss, and what comes next. Taylor Before and After is an emotional story of one girl’s journey to self-acceptance.

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