You Only Live Once, David Bravo, Mark Oshiro
You Only Live Once, David Bravo, Mark Oshiro
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You Only Live Once, David Bravo

Author: Mark Oshiro

Narrator: Avi Roque

Unabridged: 10 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 09/20/2022


Synopsis

From Mark Oshiro, award-winning author of The Insiders, this time-bending adventure is perfect for fans of Sal and Gabi Break the Universe and When You Reach Me.A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * An ALA Rainbow Book List Top 10 SelectionMiddle school is the worst, especially for David Bravo. He doesn’t have a single class with his best (okay, only) friend, Antoine. He has to give a class presentation about his heritage, but he’s not sure how—or even if—he wants to explain to his new classmates that he’s adopted. After he injures Antoine in an accident at cross-country practice, he just wishes he could do it all over.He doesn’t expect his wish to summon a talking, shapeshifting, annoying dog, Fea, who claims that a choice in David’s past actually did put him on the wrong timeline… and she can take him back to fix it.But when their first try (and the second, and the third) is a total disaster, David and Fea are left scrambling through timeline after timeline—on a quest that may lead them to answers in the most unexpected places.Coco meets Sliding Doors in this laugh-out-loud, heartwarming middle grade novel that explores how our choices make us who we are. 

About Mark Oshiro

Mark Oshiro is the award-winning author of the young adult books Anger Is a Gift (Schneider Family Book Award) and Each of Us a Desert as well as their middle grade debut, The Insiders. They are also the coauthor (with Rick Riordan) of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel The Sun and the Star. When not writing, they are trying to pet every dog in the world. Visit them online at markoshiro.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Deke

DNFing at page 29. I really wanted to like this book. I loved and related to the main character and his anxiety and over thinking and it was so very real. I enjoyed (from what I could read) the conversations about identity- as well as the “well meaning” conversations that no one should be forced to h......more

Goodreads review by Diana

I think we all wish we had a big undo button at some point in our lives. This entire book focuses on David and weird talking dog Fea trying to undo David's best friends accident. I get that this is a change the timeline type of book, but it just got a bit too bizarre for me (especially Fea). It is cr......more

Goodreads review by Kim

Wow! Thank you, Harper-Collins for providing an ARC of this book. I don't read a lot of Middle-grade novels, but I have loved Mark Oshiro's writing so much, I knew I'd want to pounce on this one, and it exceeded even my highest expectations. The story is funny, weird in all the best ways, poignant, s......more

Goodreads review by JR

Don’t mind me, I just have some dust in my eyes 🥲🥲......more