A surreal and timely novel about the effects of isolation and what it means to be connected to
the world from the Printz Award-winning author of Dig. Time has stopped. It's been June 23
2020 for nearly a year as far as anyone can tell. Frantic adults demand teenagers focus on
finding practical solutions to the worldwide crisis. Not everyone is on board though.
Javelin-throwing prodigy Truda Becker is pretty sure her Solution Time class won't solve the
world's problems but she does have a few ideas what might. Truda lives in a house with a
switch that no one ever touches a switch her father protects every day by nailing it into
hundreds of progressively larger boxes. But Truda's got a crow bar and one way or another
she's going to see what happens when she flips the switch.
