num_pages: 240
description: A novel about isolation and human connection.Tru Beck is a teenage girl from Pennsylvania who lives in a world that has become trapped in a fold in time and space where real time has stopped but humanity continues to mark artificial time based on a website called N3WCLOCK.com. Tru lives in a house that has a switch at its center. No one knows what the switch controls but her father continually builds larger and larger boxes around the switch (Tru lives in Box #7). Tru leaves the box through a Tru-shaped hole to go to school where she pays no attention to the new Solution Time curriculum. In fact the only interesting thing thats ever happened to Tru at school is when she discovers (on her first try) that she can throw a javelin farther than any human has ever thrown anything before in human history.
language: English
title: Switch
publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers