When The Future Begins

In this masterpiece about freedom, feminism, and destiny, Printz Honor author A.S. King tells the epic story of a girl coping with devastating loss at long last a girl who has no idea that the future needs her, and that the present needs her even more. Graduating from high school is a time of limitless possibilities but not for Glory, who has no plan for what's next.

A touching war-time tale set in East End London. When Nell Bailey is wounded in a Flying Bomb attack, it is up to her daughter, Josie, to hold the family together. The traumas of wartime London have left her father a weak and angry man and he no longer lives in the Bailey home in Quay Street. But Josie's new responsibilities don't stop her imagining a brighter future - a future she hopes to share with Jonny Francis, whom she has loved for as long as she can remember.Her younger brother Tommy, however, does not adjust so easily to the changes in family life. He longs for his father, Frank Bailey, to come home and when the mounting tension between himself and Josie reaches its peak he storms out of the house, vowing to live with his dad…