90 Days of Different

Walters Eric

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Key Selling Points

• This coming-of-age novel follows a girl's quest to make her life more interesting after she is broken up with on the last day of high school for being too boring. High school is over, her 90 days before university start now.


• 90 Days of Differentexplores themes of boundaries, social media and finding yourself.


• This best-selling novel is now available in paperback for the first time.


• Author Eric Walters is a tireless presenter and speaks to over 100,000 students per year.


• Best-selling, award-winning author Eric Walters has published over 100 books and has been named a Member of the Order of Canada.

On the last day of high school, Sophie's boyfriend breaks up with her. It turns out he thinks she is too predictable, too responsible, too mature...too boring.

When Sophie turns to her best friend, Ella, for comfort and reassurance, Ella just confirms what her boyfriend has said. And that hurts even more. Then Ella comes up with a plan to help Sophie find her wilder side. In the 90 days between the end of high school and the start of university, she is going to arrange for Sophie to do amazing, new, different and sometimes scary things. The deal is Sophie has to agree to everything, no matter what. And she has to share her adventures through social media. Can 90 days of different create a different life? Can stepping outside your comfort zone help you find yourself?

The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

Sujets

• Univers ado
• Fiction ado

Informations

• Publié par: Orca Book Publishers
• Date de parution: 03 octobre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781459816756
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Praise for 90 Days of Different
“A compelling tale that will connect with his legions of readers. Sophie and Ella are a dynamic duo and their intriguing experiment in pushing boundaries will keep readers turning the pages.”
—Shane Peacock, award-winning author of The Boy Sherlock Holmes series and The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim
“Addictive and inspiring! You’ll want to dive into your own ‘90 Days of Different’ as soon as you’ve read it!”
—Teresa Toten, award-winning author of Beware That Girl
“This well-told narrative shows how one can branch out of one’s comfort zone, and also how social media and the Internet can have a positive impact on the world. A fun, engaging read, particularly for those who are about to begin a new phase in their lives.”
— School Library Journal
“A how-to book for creating the ultimate summer.”
— Kirkus Reviews
“It is truly a fun read with a good message: that it is ok to push boundaries and do things one would not normally do.”
— Resource Links
90 Days of Different
Eric Walters
Copyright © Eric Walters 2017, 2020
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Walters, Eric, 1957–, author 90 days of different / Eric Walters. Issued in print and electronic formats. isbn 9781459826427 (softcover) | isbn 9781459816732 (hardcover) | isbn 9781459816749 ( pdf ) | isbn 9781459816756 ( epub ) Classification: lcc ps8595.a598 a619 2021 | dcc jc813/.54—dc23
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019954272
Previously published by Orca Book Publishers in 2017 as a hardcover ( isbn 9781459816732)
Summary: In this novel for teens, Sophie graduates from high school, her boyfriend breaks up with her because she’s boring, and her best friend challenges her to try ninety different things.
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I’d like to thank and acknowledge my daughter, Christina Arseneau for her assistance with all matters involving social media, going through the first draft, keeping me ‘up to date’ and arranging for all of Sophie’s social media platforms.
Day 1
My senior year. It was over. Finished.
“Sophie, we’re done!” Ella yelled as she wrapped her arms around me in a big hug.
“It feels good,” I said.
“Then smile!”
I smiled and hugged her back. I was glad to be finished, and I was looking forward to the summer, but transitions—even good ones—made me uneasy.
Around us, the hall was filled with an excited sea of students. High fives, hugs and tears and screams, papers tossed into the air showering down, and not a teacher in sight to mark the last bell on the last day of school.
“It’s official, we’re high school graduates!” Ella exclaimed.
“You make it sound like this was a surprise.”
“Not a surprise but still spectacular! High school is done, and summer awaits us!”
Ella had been my best friend from seventh grade on. She always spoke in rapid bursts, usually ending in an exclamation mark. It was one of her best features. And one of her most annoying ones. Not that I’d ever let her know I felt that way.
“Hey, Soph, hey, Ella,” Luke said as he joined us.
I threw an arm around him. He’d been my boyfriend for part of my junior year and through the entire senior year. Ella didn’t like him and wasn’t afraid to say that to me—or to him. She didn’t care what he thought of her. She was fearless about things like that. Again, both refreshing and at times annoying.
“Can we talk?” Luke asked me.
“Sure.”
“Privately.”
I looked at Ella. “Hey, no worries,” she said. “I’m always willing to go someplace where Luke is not.”
“Charming, as always,” Luke said.
“Not trying, as always.” Ella walked away and joined in the celebration around us.
Luke took me by the hand and led me into an empty classroom, closing the door behind us. I could still hear the celebration outside.
“I’m not sure how to say this,” Luke said.
“What are you trying to do, break up with me?” I joked.
And then I saw the look on his face, and I stopped smiling.
“You’re breaking up with me?”
He nodded. “I’ve wanted to tell you for a while, but there just wasn’t—”
“You’ve wanted to break up with me for a while?”
“I’ve been thinking about it for a few weeks, but I was waiting for the right time,” he said.
“And you thought this was it?”
“Maybe there isn’t a good time, but I ran out of time.”
“But I don’t understand. Why do you want to break up with me?”
“I don’t know.”
“Of course you know. Is there somebody else?” I demanded.
“No, of course not!”
“You’re not going to give me that old it’s not you, it’s me line, are you?”
“Oh no,” he said, shaking his head. “It’s definitely you.”
“What?”
“It’s you. It’s definitely you.”
I felt like I’d been kicked in the stomach.
“Look, Sophie, you’re smart and nice and really good-looking and—”
“Sounds like three great reasons to break up with me.”
“You’re not making this easy.”
“I’m not trying to make it easy. Just tell me why.”
He went to take my hand, and I shook it away.
“Just tell me.”
“It’s just that I feel like I’ve spent the last year—”
“Last fourteen months.”
“Last fourteen months,” he said and shook his head. “Thanks so much for correcting me on that too.”
“Are you breaking up with me because I correct you sometimes?” I asked.
“First off, you correct me all the time, and second, that isn’t the reason.”
“Then what is?”
“It’s just that it’s like you’re much older than eighteen.”
“So I’m mature.”
“It’s less like you’re mature and more like you’re old ,” he said.
“You’re three weeks older than me,” I pointed out.
“But it’s like you’re a lot older. Thirty years older.”
“Now you’re just being ridiculous.”
“Am I? I can always predict exactly what you’re going to do.”
“So you want unpredictable, do you?” I reached over and with both hands mussed up his precious hair.
“Stop that!” he said as he jumped backward and tried to straighten his hair.
He seemed more upset about his hair than about breaking up with me. Ella had always said that Luke would never care for anybody as much as he cared for his hair, and it looked like she was right about that. And maybe lots of other things about him.
“I bet you didn’t see that coming,” I said angrily.
He laughed. “Maybe not, but I bet you didn’t see this coming.”
I hadn’t. I always needed to know what was coming up, what was happening next. I hated being surprised, and this was more than that—it was a shock.
“Look, Sophie, it’s just that I want to have some fun.”
“And I’m not fun?”
“Sophie, you never want to try anything new, or different, or exciting, or dangerous. You’re just, well, so predictable that you’re boring.”
“If I’m so boring, why didn’t you break up with me months ago?”
“At first I didn’t want to interfere with the prom.”
“I think we both could have found somebody else to go with,” I said.
“Then there were final exams.”
“So you were too busy studying to break up with me?” I asked.
“ You were too busy studying. You were always studying.”
“And you thought I cared more about school than you?” Was that it? He felt like he was in second place?
“No, of course not. I knew you had to keep up your marks to maintain your scholarship offers.”
“So you didn’t break up with me then because you were being considerate of my marks staying up?” I asked. “Am I supposed to believe you were doing me a favor by staying with me?”
He shrugged. “You did ace them. You are going on a full scholarship.”
I had already accepted an academic scholarship, but I’d have received less money if my marks had gone down. Even without that consideration, though, I’d wanted— needed —to have top marks.
“Wait. Exams were over three weeks ago, so what stopped you from telling me then?”
He looked embarrassed. “I guess I didn’t want to face you every day after that.”
“Am I that scary?”
Luke nodded. “Yeah, you are.”
I hadn’t expected that as an answer.
“Then how are you going to face me next year? We’re going to the same college, unless you’re so afraid of me that you applied to go someplace else.”
“Here we shared two classes, and our lockers were only three spots apart. At college there are twenty-five thousand students, and the campus is huge. We might never even see each other.”
“Something to look forward