Mixed up

Title:

Mixed up

Author:

Summary:

Reef and Theo don't know what's happening to them. They'll be going about their days and then suddenly they'll have these strange flashes of memory -- but the memories don't belong to them. And at the same time, their own memories are starting to... vanish. For Reef, this is a big problem, because memories are all he has left of his mom. For Theo, it's strange because the new memories give him a freedom he doesn't have with his domineering dad. -- Amazon.

Audience:

Ages 8-12. Scholastic Press.

Grades 4-6. Scholastic Press.

General Note:

"Your memories are no longer yours" -- Cover.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

241 pages ; 22 cm

Genre:

Social problem fiction.

Science fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Subject Term:

Memory -- Juvenile fiction.

Bereavement -- Juvenile fiction.

Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction.

Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

Mothers -- Death -- Juvenile fiction.

Publisher:

Scholastic Press,

Publication Date:

2023

ISBN:

9781338826722

Publication Information:

New York : Scholastic Press, 2023.

Call Number:

J KORMAN

Holds: Copies:

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Summary

From the author of Restart , the story of two boys who are losing their memories . . . to each other.

For Reef, this is a big problem, because memories are all he has left of his mom.

For Theo, it's strange because the new memories give him a freedom he doesn't have with his domineering dad.

Author Notes

Gordon Korman was born in Montreal, Canada on October 23, 1963. When his 7th-grade English teacher told the class they could have 45 minutes a day for four months to work on a story of their choice, Korman began This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall. He was also the class monitor for the Scholastic TAB Book Club, so he sent his novel to the address on the TAB flyer, and a few days after his 14th birthday, he had a book contract with Scholastic.

By the time he graduated from high school, he had published five other novels and several articles for Canadian newspapers. He received a BFA degree from New York University with a major in Dramatic Writing and a minor in Film and TV. He has written over 75 books for children and young adults including the Swindle series, The Juvie Three, and two books of poetry written by the fictional character Jeremy Bloom.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Two white-cued tweens who have never met mysteriously begin swapping memories in this suspenseful novel by Korman (The Superteacher Project). Twelve-year-old Reef Moody is grieving his mother's death more than a year ago when he realizes that he can't recall certain memories of her. Instead, he has begun remembering events that he's sure he's never experienced. Meanwhile, Theo Metzinger, also 12 and living in another district, has begun recollecting images of a woman he's never seen and things he's never done; the memories are welcome if bizarre distractions from his father's overwhelming future expectations. When the two boys meet serendipitously, it doesn't take long for them to realize their connection. Together, they resolve to figure out what's happening and reverse it, but the solution turns out to be potentially life-threatening. Via Reef and Theo's earnest alternating POVs, Korman crafts an intricate mystery and a gripping adventure grounded by high-stakes emotional conflict. If the mythos surrounding the memory swap is somewhat contrived, the boys' creative brainstorming evokes classic Hardy Boys detective work, and they each emerge as bighearted, sympathetic heroes whose individual courage and support for one another is palpably rendered. Ages 8--12. (July)