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YESTERDAY IS HISTORY
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!
A romantic, heart-felt, and whimsical YA novel about letting go of the past, figuring out what you want in your future, and staying in the moment before it passes you by.
Andre Cobb hopes his luck is finally turning around. After being sick for as long as he can remember, he’s finally gotten the liver transplant he desperately needed. Now his life can finally begin. But weeks after the operation, he feels shaky and ill, passes out, and wakes up somewhere totally unexpected…the past.
Somehow, he’s slipped through time to the 1960s version of his neighborhood in Boston. While there he meets Michael, who he is instantly connected to. Michael is everything Andre is not. He’s free-spirited, artistic, and open to all of life’s possibilities.
But just as suddenly as he arrived, Andre slips back to present-day Boston. As he tries to figure out what happened, the family of his donor reaches out to let him know his new liver may have side effects… of the time travel variety. They task their youngest son, Blake, with the job of helping Andre figure out the ins and outs of his new ability.
As Andre trains with Blake, he can’t help but feel attracted to him. Blake understands Andre in a way no one else ever has. But every time Andre journeys to the past, he’s drawn back into to Michael’s world.
Torn between two boys, one in the past and one in the present, Andre has to figure out where he belongs and more importantly who he wants to be before the consequences of jumping in time catch up to him and changes his fate for good.
PRAISE
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!
—Junior Library Guild
⭐ “A stellar novel that today’s teens needed yesterday.”
—Booklist, STARRED Review
“In a novel with exciting representation of a gay Black teen where identity isn’t the issue, readers will appreciate the realistic nuance of Andre’s frankness when talking about the White privilege Blake and his family exhibit that makes them unable to see how different and potentially dangerous time traveling is for a 17-year-old Black boy… A skillful and engrossing time-travel adventure.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Compelling and memorable… This gem of a novel is a stellar entry in the niche category of transplant romance and it should be snapped up by both romance and sci fi fans.”
—Bulletin for the Center of Children’s Books
“Gay romance + time travel! I really enjoyed this book – it was fast-paced, fun, and perfect.”
—Laurie Halse Anderson, NYT bestselling author of Speak
“Charming and captivating, Yesterday is History will take you on a wild ride from the very first page. Jackson puts such a clever spin on time travel in this sweet, unputdownable love story.”
—Phil Stamper, bestselling author of The Gravity of Us
“A clever and honestly brilliant novel, Yesterday Is History is an emotional journey through grief, healing, and the complicated beauty of young love. Kosoko Jackson delivers the conflicted, time-traveling hero queer boys have been hoping for.”
—Julian Winters, award-winning author of Running With Lions