by Lydia Sharp
Thanks a million to my son, for putting up with a scatterbrained, overemotional mom who’s constantly trying to meet one deadline or another and probably “makes” takeout for dinner more often than they should, but thank you especially for giving me hugs whenever I need them. It seems overnight you became a six-foot-tall teenager, but you’ll always be my baby.
Eternal thanks to Melissa Linville, my dear friend whom this book is dedicated to. My last conversation with you feels like only yesterday, when you were asking about this new book I was writing and how excited you were that it would be published so you could buy a zillion copies and tell everyone you knew about it. You were my champion, my confidant, my cheerleader, and you were gone far too soon. Ten years of friendship was not nearly enough. But the effect you left behind is lasting. You will never be forgotten and you will always be loved. I’m glad for the time we did have together. I’m very lucky to have been one of those who knew you. Thank you for your contagious optimism and teaching me that every new day is a gift. I wish the time loop in this book were real, so I could spend one more day with you again and again and again. Miss you so much …
And last but never least, thanks to all of you who read JJ’s story from start to finish and ended up here, reading this page. Thanks double if you read my first book and came back for more. It’s because of you that I’m able to do what I love for a living—tell stories, write fiction, make books—and I’ve got so many more stories to tell. I hope you’ll be with me for those, too. Grazie, grazie, grazie!
Lydia Sharp worked a number of different jobs, everything from retail management to veterinary medicine, before turning their passion for stories into a career. They are now a romance editor and write YA novels with lots of kissing and adventures. Lydia lives in northeast Ohio with an ever-growing collection of owls. When not completely immersed in a book, they binge on Netflix, pine for Fall, and host mad tea parties in Wonderland. Follow them on Twitter at @lydia_sharp for updates.
Copyright © 2020 by Lydia Sharp
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Names: Sharp, Lydia, author.
Title: The night of your life / Lydia Sharp.
Description: First edition. | New York : Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2020. | Audience: Ages 12 and up. | Audience: Grades 7-9. | Summary: JJ is taking his best friend Lucy to the senior prom, but on the way there a near car crash suddenly points him in the direction of a possible new romance, and when he finally gets to the prom he finds that Lucy has been taken to the hospital and never wants to see him again; but when he wakes up the next morning he finds that it is prom day again—and what seemed like a second chance quickly turns into an endless loop of disasters with no obvious way to break the cycle and fix his relationship. Identifiers: LCCN 2019029858 (print) | LCCN 2019029859 (ebook) | ISBN 9781338317275 (paperback) | ISBN 9781338317282 (ebk) Subjects: LCSH: Proms—Juvenile fiction. | Time—Juvenile fiction. | Interpersonal relations—Juvenile fiction. | Conduct of life—Juvenile fiction. | Friendship—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Proms—Fiction. | Time—Fiction. | Conduct of life—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. Classification: LCC PZ7.1.S484 Ni 2020 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.S484 (ebook) | DDC 813.6 [Fic] —dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019029858 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019029859
First edition, March 2020
Cover design by Yaffa Jaskoll
Cover art © 2020 by Mike Heath | Magnus Creative
e-ISBN 978-1-338-31728-2
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