Losing Normal

by Francis Moss

Overview

Winner of the 2019 Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators SPARK award and the Readers Favorite Five Star award!

Everyone we love, everything we know, is going away… and only an autistic boy can stop it.

Alex knows exactly how many steps it takes to get from his home to Mason Middle School. This is normal.

Alex knows the answers in AP math before his teacher does, which is also normal.

Alex knows that something bad is coming out of the big screen in his special needs class. It's pushing images into his head, hurting him, making him forget. Alex pushes back, the screen explodes, and nothing is normal any more.

Giant screen televisions appear all over the city. The programming is addictive. People have to watch, but Alex cannot.

Sophie, the sentient machine behind all this, sees the millions and millions of eyeballs glued to her and calls it love. To Sophie, kids like Alex are defective. Defectives are to be fixed...or eliminated. 

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156509560
Publisher:	Encelia Press
Publication date:	11/06/2018
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	651 KB
Age Range:	13 Years

Editorial Reviews

“LOSING NORMAL is superbly executed and will keep you turning the pages late into the night.” — David Estes, #1 Amazon bestselling author of Fatemarked and Slip

“...a wellplotted story that gives a voice to an offbeat protagonist.” — Kirkus Reviews

“LOSING NORMAL is a thrilling, fast-paced, action-packed book...thoughtful, provocative, fully-contemporary and funny. You will enjoy reading it, as much as I did.” — Francisco X. Stork, Author of Marcelo in the Real World

“LOSING NORMAL by Francis Moss is an entertaining dystopian novel that takes on the timely topics of what it means to be ‘normal,’ screen addiction, and the hidden perils of needing to be liked at any cost.” — Dave Sosnowski, winner of the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize & author of Happy Doomsday & Vamped

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