A Wish After Midnight, Zetta Elliott
A Wish After Midnight, Zetta Elliott
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A Wish After Midnight

Author: Zetta Elliott

Narrator: Quincy Tyler Bernstine

Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/20/2012

Synopsis

“Although there is plenty of history embedded in the novel, A Wish After Midnight is written with a lyrical grace that many authors of what passes for adult literature would envy.” —Paula L. Woods, The Defenders Online“Zetta Elliott’s time travel novel A Wish After Midnight is a bit of a revelation…It’s vivid, violent, and impressive history.” —Colleen Mondor, BookslutGenna is a fifteen-year-old girl who wants out of her tough Brooklyn neighborhood. But she gets more than she bargained for when a wish gone awry transports her back in time. Facing the perilous realities of Civil War–era Brooklyn, Genna must use all her wits to survive. In the tradition of Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, A Wish After Midnight is the affecting and inspiring tale of a fearless young woman’s fight to hold on to her individuality and her humanity in two different worlds.

About Zetta Elliott

Zetta Elliott was born and raised outside of Toronto, Canada but has lived and taught in Brooklyn for over ten years. An educator and a writer, Elliott has published numerous works of poetry, plays, essays, and children’s books, including Bird, her critically acclaimed picture book which was released in 2008. Elliott also originally released A Wish after Midnight in 2008, in response to a need for more books that spoke to the varied roots and realities of children in urban schools. She is currently working on a sequel to A Wish after Midnight.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Naz on June 29, 2016

Visit my blog for the in-depth review: Read Diverse Books A Wish After Midnight is one of the most thrilling reading experiences I’ve had this year. Author Zetta Elliott writes with an urgency that informs the reader early on that this will be an important story. It is book 1 of the series, the seque......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on April 07, 2017

I found "A Wish After Midnight" to have a slower start than what I typically prefer. The most intriguing aspect of the story and when it started to really take off was, after all, the travelling back in time. As much as I found the stark realities of Genna's life interesting (when contrasting them w......more

Goodreads review by Nia on April 30, 2016

This book is the standout of all the books I've read this year. It follows Genna, a 15-year old girl in modern day Brooklyn, living with her mother and siblings in the projects, dreaming of a better life for them all. Genna watches her brother and sister make bad choices, all the while planning her......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on December 02, 2017

Eh, 2.5 stars. This book read very much like a teen version of "Kindred". A black girl, Genna, living in Brooklyn gets mysteriously transported back in time to the civil war era, where obviously being non-white is kind of dangerous. Despite the interesting premise, this one falls short. There didn't......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on September 29, 2013

I've changed my initial review to three stars due to issues I had with the plot and the theme. A four or five star book shouldn't leave a reader feeling this way, in my opinion. I really did enjoy the story, especially when Genna went back in time. The time period, New York City in the 1850's, was o......more

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