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When Tomorrow Burns

by Tae Keller Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE

Friendship under a looming prophecy

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Hardcover New English

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    National Book Award longlist

    Longlisted for the National Book Award.

  • Bestseller

    New York Times bestseller

AlbakiReads Editorial

Friendship under a looming prophecy

A childhood discovery—a book of prophecies—returns to shape Nomi, Vi, and Arthur’s seventh-grade lives when its final prediction begins to unfold. With wildfires threatening Seattle and the friends increasingly distant from one another, the story connects uncertainty about the future with the pressures of changing relationships. Each character faces a different strain: Nomi seeks help to avert disaster, Vi weighs a new connection against who she wants to be, and Arthur conceals why he ended his friendship with Nomi. The prophecy gives their personal conflicts a shared point of tension, bringing fate, secrets, and friendship into the same unfolding crisis.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Middle-grade readers interested in friendship under pressure and changing relationships.
  • Readers who enjoy stories combining prophecies with present-day challenges.
  • Readers looking for a novel with three central friends and a Seattle setting threatened by wildfires.

Themes

FriendshipFate and uncertaintySecrets and identityGrowing upWildfires and impending danger

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Book overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Three middle school students embark on a quest to find a book that may just save their lives in this spectacular novel about fate and friendship--from the Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Trap a Tiger.

"Another unforgettable novel from one of my favorite authors. I loved Nomi, Arthur, and Vi. I have a prophecy that readers will love them, too."--Erin Entrada Kelly, two-time Newbery Medalist and National Book Award finalist

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

Once there was a tree. For two hundred years, there was a tree. There was a tree. There was a tree. Until the tree fell in a forest--and then there was a book.

When best friends Nomi, Vi, and Arthur were younger, they discovered a book of prophecies. It was so very comforting to know what was coming. But as the kids grew older, they forgot about the book.

Until the final prophecy started coming true.

Now, as seventh grade tests their friendship and wildfires threaten Seattle, the final prophecy promises fire and destruction. Nomi tries everything to prevent calamity. The only problem? She needs help...but Vi's acting strange and Arthur stopped talking to her.

Vi can't tell Nomi, but she's been texting the coolest boy in school, and it's going well--until that boy makes an unexpected request, and she must decide who she wants to be.

Meanwhile, Arthur joined the cross-country team, but he can't outrun the real reason he ended his friendship with Nomi. The best he can do is try to hide it.

As the prophecy escalates, past and present intersect, fate and friendship collide, and secrets spread like wildfire. Together, Nomi, Vi, and Arthur must face the future...even, and especially when it's so uncertain.
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