Right Back at You
Right Back at You
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Right Back at You

Written by Carolyn Mackler
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9 - 12
Reading age
240
Page count
150
Words per page
Mar 4, 2025
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From the award-winning, bestselling author of Not If I Can Help It, a story about reaching across time to find the support you need against bullies, bad friends, and antisemitism.Mason lives in 2023. His parents have just split up, and there’s a guy at school who won’t get off his case. As part of an assignment, he writes a letter to Albert Einstein and it ends up getting a little too personal. He throws the letter into his closet……and the next day he gets a letter back from a girl named Talia, who lives in 1987. She has problems of her own, including classmates who make jokes because she’s Jewish. She thought her friends would have her back. But it ends up the only person she really has to talk to is… a random boy from the future?In the tradition of such beloved novels as When You Reach Me and Save Me a Seat, Carolyn Mackler has written a funny, all-too-relatable story about finding the friend you need… even if that friends happens to live in another year.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9781338734218
    Publication Date
    March 4, 2025
    Publisher
    Scholastic Press
    Page Count
    240
    Words Per Page
    150
    Audience
    Middle Grade
    Reading Age
    9 - 12 years

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