Before Takeoff (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780593375761)

The Sun Is Also a Star meets Jumanji when two teens meet and fall in love during a layover-gone-wrong at the Atlanta airport in this thrilling new novel from the author of Let's Get Lost

James and Michelle find themselves in the Atlanta airport on a layover. They couldn't be more different, but seemingly interminable delays draw them both to a mysterious flashing green light--and each other.

Where James is passive, Michelle is anything but. And she quickly discovers that the flashing green light is actually... a button. Which she presses. Which may or may not unwittingly break the rules of the universe--at least as those rules apply to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta.

Before they can figure up from down, strange, impossible things start happening: snowstorms form inside the B terminal; jungles sprout up in the C terminal; and earthquakes split the ground apart in between. And no matter how hard they try, it seems no one can find a way in or out of the airport. James and Michelle team up to find their families and either escape the airport, or put an end to its chaos--before it's too late.

Author: Adi Alsaid
ISBN-10: 0593375769
ISBN-13: 9780593375761
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 06/07/2022
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/16/2022
School Library Journal 07/01/2022 pg. 61
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2022