Deborah Lynn Jacobs
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Choices


Sticky notes rim the mirror in rainbow colors. REMEMBER. DON’T FORGET HIM. READ THE NOTEBOOK. Remember what? Remember who? And what’s this about a notebook? There’s another note, bottom center of the mirror. THE DREAMS ARE REAL.

 

 

Consumed by guilt over her brother’s death, Kathleen shifts between alternate universes in an attempt to find one in which he is alive.

 

Choices begins in one time line, then fractures into multiple universes with every decision Kathleen makes. Soon, she is no longer certain whose world she is in, or whose life she is living. Kathleen, Kay, Kate, Kathy--how could I have been all of them? And all at the same time?

 

The only stability, in each reality, is another shifter, Luke. But Luke is a stranger, with his own past, his own secrets. Can he be trusted? Or is he a predator, as her best friend, Jen, claims?

 

Like the branching limbs of a tree, each choice leads to new possibilities. There’s only one problem. You can’t go back and undo a decision. In the end, Kathleen must trust her heart to choose.

 

Choices is a story about the choices we make while being true to ourselves.

In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews said, "Kathleen's melancholic tale does justice both to the moving story of a girl coming to terms with the death of her brother, and to the magical adventure of a universe-shifting girl trying to find her way home." 

Choices is an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult readers, and was a finalist for the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.

It made the New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age list, under the category of "Dealing With It."

http://teenlink.nypl.org/bta_2008-rev.pdf


It's also a Stellar Award Nominee, 2009/2010. http://www.stellaraward.ca/2009/index.php

The Stellar Awards are British Columbia’s Teen Readers’ Choice Awards.

 

Choices is a Teensreadtoo Gold Award winner and Hall of Fame winner.

 

Deborah Lynn Jacobs says, “What if there were multiple copies of you, living out permutations of your life in an infinite number of realities? Call it what you like: multiple universes, the multiverse, parallel universes—quantum theory suggests they could exist.

But we humans, with our limited powers of perception, are locked into knowing only one reality at a time. We can only imagine where our lives would lead us, had we made different choices along the way."