![]() ![]() ![]() Even so, Trina feels increasingly plagued by a "guilt-demon." Emerson (the Oliver Nocturne series) makes the tug-of-war within Trina between her growing empathy for Carlos and her desire to fit in with her friends realistic and compelling: "It's just too bad you don't have a little card that you can use at, like, a store, to swap yourself into another body for a while, until the heat of your own life cooled down." Though the prank plays out melodramatically, Trina's narration is authentic, and dialogue involving parents, teachers and classmates feels lifelike, too. The son of two scientists who have been racing against time to create technology vital to humanity’s survival, Liam, along with his friend Phoebe, will be on the last starliner to depart before Mars, like Earth before it, is destroyed. Trina, the narrator, is not a bad kid, and she's initially reluctant to go along with the scheme, until Carlos embarrasses her in front of the whole class. They come up with a plan to scare Carlos big-time during their upcoming class overnight at Mount Cardigan. Seventh-grader Trina and her friends have had enough of Carlos, the disturbed kid in class whose bizarre behavior always gets everyone else in trouble. ![]()
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