Jinny knows her responsibility now–to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they’ve always been.But will she be ready for the inevitable day when the boat will come back–and take her away forever from the only home she’s known?”A unique and compelling story about nine children who live with no adults on a mysterious island. The boat arrives, taking away Jinny’s best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts.And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them–and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again.Today’s Changing is no different. Thought-provoking and magical.” –Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson seriesIn the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypacker’s Pax and Lois Lowry’s The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island.On the island, everything is perfect. I hope that makes sense.A National Book Award Longlist title! “A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true.” –Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon”This is one of those books that haunts you long after you read it. But different books do different things, and it was important to me that this one be a book people fought with a little, worked at, and pondered after they closed it. I understand that not everyone loves this, that some people want the answers.
I wanted to leave readers with that sense of longing that Jinny lives with. I wanted you to think about it, and puzzle your own answers. The other, and more important reason, is this: I wanted the end of the book to be a question. She's a young woman, in a sense, and so the sequel would be more YA and less middle grade. One is logistical, and that's simply that Jinny isn't a kid anymore, when she gets out of the boat.
There are two reasons I'm not writing a sequel. The beginnings of the island, and if I can pull it off, it will explain a lot of things. It's not a sequel, but an origin story, a d prequel. I'm working on a companion, that may or may not be published.
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