Bedford, Martyn. FLIP
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, 2011
IL YA
ISBN 0385739907
Ever wake up a bit groggy? 14-year-old Alex, a somewhat geeky aspiring clarinetist wakes up
and finds himself in someone else's body. While he's trying to really wake up - this must be a
weird dream - that someone else's mother tells him to get up and get ready for school! Who is
that? What school?! Soon he is bumbling through Philip Garamond's life, for that's who
everyone thinks he is now, trying to fake it till he can figure out what's going on. And they are
such different people! Philip is a buff athlete and one of the "in crowd", and knows nothing
about music.
Days become weeks. Alex learns that his own body is lying in a coma after a car accident and
that what seemed like one night was actually 3 months.
One of the things I liked about this story is you only learn the answers as to what's happened
through Alex. The tension of the confusion works. You get drawn in and want to know - how is
this going to be resolved? Surely Alex can get his own life back, right? And, if Alex is in
Philip's body, is Philip locked in Alex's body? Along the way he meets Ron, a person with the
same condition, it's called psychic evacuation. Ron tells Alex to adjust to his new life and get
on with it. That's not what Alex wants. How is this going to be resolved? You'll have to read it
to find out.
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, 2011
IL YA
ISBN 0385739907
Ever wake up a bit groggy? 14-year-old Alex, a somewhat geeky aspiring clarinetist wakes up
and finds himself in someone else's body. While he's trying to really wake up - this must be a
weird dream - that someone else's mother tells him to get up and get ready for school! Who is
that? What school?! Soon he is bumbling through Philip Garamond's life, for that's who
everyone thinks he is now, trying to fake it till he can figure out what's going on. And they are
such different people! Philip is a buff athlete and one of the "in crowd", and knows nothing
about music.
Days become weeks. Alex learns that his own body is lying in a coma after a car accident and
that what seemed like one night was actually 3 months.
One of the things I liked about this story is you only learn the answers as to what's happened
through Alex. The tension of the confusion works. You get drawn in and want to know - how is
this going to be resolved? Surely Alex can get his own life back, right? And, if Alex is in
Philip's body, is Philip locked in Alex's body? Along the way he meets Ron, a person with the
same condition, it's called psychic evacuation. Ron tells Alex to adjust to his new life and get
on with it. That's not what Alex wants. How is this going to be resolved? You'll have to read it
to find out.
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