The Future Of Us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler

The summary or "attention getter" for this book is what drew me in.  It is a story I've never heard of anyone writing, not like your typical book you might pick up.  It's set in 1996 when AOL just came out along with cell phones and the internet.  Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives.  Josh gets a CD in the mail for 100 free AOL hours (sounds familiar right?) and decides to give it to Emma since he doesn't own a computer yet and his mom doesn't approve of internet surfing.  Once Emma downloaded AOL, she's automatically logged on to Facebook.  Facebook hasn't been invented yet!  But yet Emma & Josh are watching 15 years into the future as their future selves post things as they happen.  Emma doesn't quite like her future and figures out that the smallest change in decisions alters A LOT.  Josh likes his future at first but then he really starts to think about it....does he really want that kind of perfect future?  This book was an awesome story of two kids next door being the best of friends and experiencing love throughout high school along with fitting in and trying to painfully figure out what the most important things in life should really be.  It was really good, but I would say it should be at a high school level and older.  It has a lot of language in it and it talks about sex a lot, although no one actually has it.  It's your typical teenagers in high school though so the things they say are what is really said.  It's a flashback though!  I had to laugh at all the things that were referenced in this book, it made me feel so old!  Happy Reading!!!