Book Review - Staff Recommended Read

October 04, 2010

Have you ever wondered what you would do if you could go back in time and do a day over again? Sam Kingston has just had a strange day. She got up for school, met her friends for the ride to the campus, collected a lot of roses for Cupid Day, went to an awesome party, and died in a horrible accident on the way home. Sam Kingston is dead- or is she? When she wakes up the next morning, Sam is almost convinced it was a really bad dream. Worse still, Sam realizes that she has rewound the clock, and is starting the same day over again. What if she changed a few things? What if she changed nothing? What if Sam can't figure out how to stop herself from dying at age seventeen?

Sam has plenty of chances to get things right in Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. The question remains, though, what would you do if you could do everything over again?

-Monica G.
Kearney Branch