Best Selling Books by Carolyn Mackler

From Jay Asher, the bestselling author of THIRTEEN REASONS WHY - now a Netflix TV show - and Carolyn Mackey, comes a story of friendship, destiny, and finding love. What if you could see how your life would unfold just be clicking a button? It’s 1996 and Facebook isn''t even invented. Yet somehow, best friends Emma and Josh have discovered their profiles, fifteen years in the future … and they’re not sure they like what they see. The more Emma and Josh learn about their future lives, the more obsessed they become on changing the destiny that awaits them. But what if focusing on the future, means that you miss something that’s right in front of you? ?

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.

V Valentine, the queen of meaningless hookups, meets the perfect boy after a run-in with a hockey puck, but when the unexpected happens, V makes a terrible mistake that could jeopardize everything.

Because every wife deserves a happy ending. Three best friends decide they’re finally done with their ex-husbands taking their work as wives and moms for granted. They’re ready to monetize the mental load, stick it to their exes, and have a wild ride in the process in this “fresh, funny, empowering, and totally satisfying” (Judy Blume) novel about divorce, modern marriage, and female friendship. Lauren, mother of twins, wakes up one morning to her Wife Alarm Bells sounding. She sleuths on her husband’s phone and stumbles on a dirty secret that explodes her marriage. Madeline has it all—a penthouse apartment, a perfect daughter, and no-strings-attached romps with handsome men. But when she learns she might lose her child to her ex in England, it stirs up a decades-old personal tragedy. Sophie, with too much FOMO and never enough money, obsesses over her ex-husband’s Family 2.0—all while keeping her true desires hidden, even from herself. It starts as a joke during a tipsy night out, as Lauren, Madeline, and Sophie rail against everything wives do for free. Let’s build an app that monetizes the mental load. And maybe revenge on our exes in the process. Soon, the Wife App is born, and before long, it’s the fastest growing startup in New York City. But then life intervenes. Love intervenes. Ex-husbands intervene. And the consequences are bigger than anything Lauren, Madeline, or Sophie could have expected. Carolyn Mackler marks her debut into adult fiction with a roller-coaster ride of revenge and redemption that is at once a send-up of modern marriage and a celebration of female friendship and love in all forms.

From award-winning Carolyn Mackler, the story of Willa, who has been living with Sensory Processing Disorder but is thrown for a BIG loop when her dad announces he''s dating Willa''s best friend''s mom. Willa likes certain things to be certain ways. Her socks have to be soft . . . and definitely can''t have irritating tags on the inside. She loves the crunch of popcorn and nachos . . . but is grossed out by the crunch of a baby carrot. And slimy foods? Those are the worst.Willa can manage all these things -- but there are some things she can''t deal with, like her father''s big news. He''s been keeping a big secret from her . . . that he''s been dating the mom of Willa''s best friend Ruby. Willa does NOT like the idea of them being together. And she does NOT like the idea of combining families. And she does NOT like the idea of her best friend becoming her sister overnight. Will she go along with all of these changes? NOT if she can help it!

Mara''s niece, who is only one-year-younger, moves in bringing conflict between the two teenagers because of their opposite personalities.

Maybe I''ll decide I have a life story, too, and I''ll reveal some of it. The good girl, the jock, the beautiful one, and the geek. Tangle them together, and the unexpected happens. Jena, Dakota, Skye, and Owen are all in Paradise. When they meet, they have no idea how they will all connect—or that their chance encounters will transform each of their lives. The secrets we keep, the risks we take, and the things we do for love: Four months after it all begins in Paradise, none of them will ever be the same.

The Breakfast Club meets Boyhood in this striking young adult novel from Printz Honor author Carolyn Mackler, which chronicles the lives of five teenagers through the thrills, heartbreaks, and joys of their four years in high school. "Characters live, grow, and ultimately come of age in a beautifully constructed world,” raved Kirkus in a starred review. Zoe, Jake, Mia, Gregor, and Whitney meet at freshman orientation. At the end of that first day, they make a promise to reunite after graduation. But so much can happen in those in-between years. . . . Zoe fears she will always be in her famous mother’s shadow. Jake struggles to find the right connections in friendship and in love. Mia keeps trying on new identities, looking for one that actually fits. Gregor thought he wanted to be more than just a band geek. And Whitney seems to have it all, until it’s all falling apart around her. Carolyn Mackler skillfully brings the stories of these five disparate teens together to create a distinct and cohesive whole—a novel about how we can all affect one another’s lives in the most unexpected and amazing ways. Infinite in Between received four starred reviews, was listed on several best books of the year lists, and is perfect for fans of books by Jandy Nelson, Sara Zarr, and E. Lockhart.

With her parents splitting up, 16-year-old Sammie Davis may not want to feel a thing, but feelings happen. For starters, she’s plenty angry. Her dad’s leaving their upstate New York home and moving clear across the country. Her mother—well, she’s packing up and relocating to New York City with Sammie, who has no say about any of it. Overnight Sammie is forced to deal with change. And one change spawns another: Roles get reversed, old and new friendships tested, and sexual feelings awakened. It’s a scary time. But as Sammie realizes that things can’t stay the same forever, that even the people she loves and trusts the most can disappoint her, she begins to accept that change isn’t always bad. It’s how you cope, jumbled feelings and all, that counts. And as she copes, Sammie’s sense of self emerges proud and strong.

Willa likes certain things to be certain ways. Her socks have to be soft . . . and definitely can''t have irritating tags on the inside. She loves the crunch of popcorn and nachos . . . but is grossed out by the crunch of a baby carrot. And slimy foods? Those are the worst.

Una storia irresistibile che conquisterà chi è nato con facebook e prima di facebook. È il 1996, la velocità di connessione arranca rumorosamente a 56kb, la rete è quasi vuota, è ancora uno strumento per pochi, una sorta di nuova stregoneria tecnologica. Emma e Josh si conoscono fin da quando erano piccoli, sono sempre stati amici inseparabili, poi Josh ha tentato di baciarla e le cose si sono complicate. È parecchio tempo che non si vedono, ma un giorno Josh si presenta a casa di Emma e le porge imbarazzato un cd rom per connettersi a internet, è arrivato a sua madre come omaggio, ma loro non hanno il computer. Emma invece ha un fiammante pc con Windows 95 e quando riesce finalmente a connettersi accade qualcosa di inspiegabile. Per una strana alterazione nella barriera spazio-temporale appare sullo schermo una misteriosa pagina bianca e blu, con una scritta sconosciuta: facebook. E c’è la foto di una donna sui trent’anni con un volto familiare, troppo familiare. Si è aperto un pericolosissimo portale sul futuro in grado di cambiare, in un’indimenticabile settimana di delirio, il presente, i sentimenti e il destino di Emma e Josh.