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She’s also going to start over as Ever Lawrence: a new name for her new beginning. Specifically, a cutthroat academic-decathlon-like competition for a full scholarship to Rayevich College-the only college with a Science Fiction Literature program, and her dream school. What she is going to do is pack up her determination, her favorite Octavia Butler novels, and her Jordans, and run away to summer camp. And that just isn't appealing, no matter how many Xenomorphs from Alien she'd be able to defeat afterwards. As cool as it would be to live-action-role-play Ender's Game, Ellie's seen three generations of her family go through USAF boot camp up close, and she knows that it's much less Luke/Yoda/"feel the force," and much more one hundred push-ups on three days of no sleep. And she certainly isn't going to the Air Force summer program on her mom's base in Colorado Springs. She isn't going to mock trial camp at UCLA.ģ. She isn't going to stay home in Sacramento, where she'd have to sit through her stepmother's sixth community theater production of The Importance of Being Earnest.Ģ. "A wonderful book." - School Library JournalĮlliot Gabaroche is very clear on what she isn't going to do this summer.ġ. ONE OF Paste's BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOKS IN NOVEMEBER 2017 Smith meets The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy in Lily Anderson's Not Now, Not Ever, a deliciously nerdy companion to The Only Thing Worse than Me Is You
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