King, A. (2014).
Glory O’Brien’s history of the future. New York: Little Brown Books for Young
Readers.
This is a story
about a girl coping with devastating loss and a story about women’s rights,
feminism, and destiny. Glory has no plans for her future. Her mother committed
suicide when she was four years old. She has a best friend, Ellie who is
obsessed with sex. One day, Glory and Ellie ingest the remains of a dead bat
and they begin to experience powers that allow them to see a person’s past and
future. Glory sees many visions. When she sees that she has no future, it terrifies
her. As she is bombarded with visions of women’s rights disappearing, a second
civil war with lots of violence, kidnappings, and murders, she feels that the
only way she can help is by recording everything she sees hoping that one day
those recordings will make a difference.
This is a great moving, compelling and memorable
novel. This book is recommended for grades 9 and up. Other books written by
this author include, Everybody Sees the Ants, Ask the Passengers, I Crawl
Through It, Still Life with Tornado, and Monica Never Shuts Up.
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