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Preble, Joy

It Wasn't Always like This

247 pp. | Soho Teen | May, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-61695-588-5 $18.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-61695-589-2
(3) YA Seventeen-year-old Emma and her boyfriend's families drank an anti-polio vaccine that rendered them immortal; pursued by religious fanatics, the teens separate. In an alternating narrative in the present day, Emma has been searching for Charlie for nearly a century and girls with a striking resemblance to Emma are being murdered. Tuck Everlasting meets the thriller genre in this satisfying era-hopping novel.
Reviewer: Grace Enriquez

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