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I picked up an ARC at ALA and I read it as fast as I could. Yes, it was that good and the plane trip home was easy because of it. You should read it. It is called The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler and it will be out in November 2011. The basics: It is 1996 (think: before the internets were available everywhere) and Emma and Josh through a time travel computer glitch gain access to the Facebook accounts of their future selves. The teens both purposefully and accidentally alter their futures, learn a lot about who they are and what they want and they find a little romance. It is a good solid book for the twelve and up crowd. But. You had to know the “but” was coming. But. Chapter 24 set off my Intellectual Freedom Alarm. And it was loud. In Chapter...