The magic of possibilities, the mystery of an old home with stories to tell. A young girl who was twelve years old in 1915 and a twelve year old boy in 2015 share their stories through time and form a friendship that will forever change them both.

Josie and Alec were born a century apart, but the house at 444 Sparrow Street would help them transcend time to form a bond that would teach them both about life, grasping at what you want and taking a chance on believing in the unbelievable. It all started with a magic spirit board, found by Alec in the old house he had just moved into. That board would connect him to Josie and the opportunity to change her life for the better, even at the risk of them never connecting again.

THE BOY FROM TOMORROW by Camille DeAngelis is a beautiful opportunity for young readers to feel the magic that words create as they are transported to another time and place. Simple and warm, this tale gives young readers a chance to exercise their limitless imaginations as they witness a budding friendship between two children who should never have met.

What a marvelous opportunity to fall in love with books and reading! Camille DeAngelis’s tale is one that is ageless as we witness the helplessness of children caught up in abuse who are aided by a boy determined to help them, even if their future is his past. In a world of technology, it is refreshing to watch a young boy use old-fashioned detective work and the resources of a library to uncover the fate of the girls he met through time and possibly the magic of a child’s favorite doll.

With an ending that is almost bittersweet, we see the chance for a new beginning for both Josie and Alec, even a century apart in time! Can we ever give our children enough magic to feed their imaginations or enough opportunities to witness and trust in innocent kindnesses?

I received a complimentary ARC edition from Amberjack Publishing!

Publisher: Amberjack Publishing (May 6, 2018)
Publication Date: May 6, 2018
Genre: Middlegrade/YA Fantasy
Print Length: 268 Pages
Available from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble
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Not for me, I didn’t take to the first few chapters’ plot or characters. Maybe at another time but I could feel I wasn’t going to get on with it at the moment.

Did not finish.

The story is easy and fun to read, definitely recommend to children.
Worth a 3 star in my point of view. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Thank you to the publisher for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Imagine making a new friend who lives in the same house as you, but is a hundred years away from you. This is the plot of this book.

In 2015, Alec Frost, 12 years old, moves into a old house, and while exploring it, discovers a ouija board. He starts using it and who answers him? Josie Clifford, also 12, with her sister Cass, who live in the exact same house, but in 1915.

I absolutely love friendship stories, and this one had a twist I knew I would love it very much. It was so beautiful and at the same time so painful to read about Josie, Cass and Alec becoming friends, even though they are not alive at the same time. Knowing the only thing they could offer the other were words. But it was so well done. They help each other with their problems and I think it was really the right time for them to “meet”.

I didn’t want the book to end, for their story to end, I had tears running down my face with all these feelings I was having, but I am so glad I read it. I loved watching them learning more from the past/future from the other. It was really precious.

Three children live in the same house, their bedroom is the same room, and they are 100 years apart. Josie, Cassie and Alec are the children who live at 444 Sparrow Street. However, Josie and Cassie live in 1915 while Alec lives in 2015. Yet somehow, they are able to communicate through a Ouiji board in real time. What unravels is a story not so much about spirits or time travel, but rather about children who reach across the span of time to help each other when they need it the most.

This story is about love; love between sisters, love between a mother and her child, love between children and their governess, and love between friends who have never met. It is also a story about a mother who is not equipped to love her children, no matter how good they are and the fallout that can ensue when they are forced to live with each other.

This is a great story for young adults because it tells about a friendship that can cross time itself and how siblings can save each other when they need it. It is a magical story with dolls that can talk and boards that work like telephones. It also shows the love that adults can have for children, even if they are not their own, and what can happen when that love is so powerful it can protect when danger presents itself.

This story is a great read and hard to put down once you start. There are some disturbing details in the story (mild physical abuse), but that is necessary to fully understand what the girls go through and why Alec has such a profound effect on their lives.

I loved The Boy from Tomorrow! I was easily able to suspend my disbelief and become engrossed in the likeable characters and their problems. The "evil" character was not one dimensional. I loved the way the story ended. Not all questions were answered but the reader is given clues to the answers as the story ends. I couold not put this book down. If I taught middle grades ELA, this is definitely a book I would add to my classroom library. I think it could be a great read aloud in 3rd or 4th grade. Just a wonderful story!

I LOVED this story! It's a heartwarming story of two 22 year olds from two different time periods whomshare the same room in a home. I love the time travel experience and I thinkmkids will love the transition as they read!

Camille DeAngelis’ The Boy from Tomorrow is a tale of two children living at 444 Sparrow Street in the fictional town of Edwardstown in the Adirondacks exactly one century apart. Twelve-year-old Alec Frost’s fragile mother is still reeling from her husband’s leaving her for a young blonde, and he has no friends after leaving New York City. Josie Clifford, only slightly younger and tutored at home with her mischievous 6-year-old sister Cassie, is very rarely allowed to venture from home in 1915 by her cold, selfish mother, Lavinia Clifford, a well-known spiritualist medium of the day; consequently, Josie’s tutor, kindly Emily Jasper, is the girl’s only friend. Josie and Alec encounter each other thanks to a splendid, one-of-kind Ouija board (then known as “spirit boards” or “talking boards”), one of the tools of Lavinia’s trade. Both commiserate over their difficult families and delight in discovering the day-to-day life of 1915 and 2015.

DeAngelis weaves a pretty good narrative, alternating between Josie’s timeline and Alec’s, with plenty of suspense and unforeseen twists. The very last chapter was a bit weak, although not enough to ruin the pleasure of this middle-grade marvel with a wonderful message. Adults will, of course, understand DeAngelis’ novel at a different level than will children, but both will be glad they read The Boy from Tomorrow.

Lastly, the pen-and-ink drawings by Agnieska Grochalska perfectly complement both ends of the narrative.

In the interest of full disclosure, I received this book from NetGalley and Amberjack Publishing in exchange for an honest review.

My many thanks to Camille DeAngelis and Amberjack Publishing for providing me ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book is about a house, a space of some hundred years, a boy, two girls, the uncertainty and mystery that is time.

Five lovely stars for this one.

I didn't know what to expect when I begin, but the moment I read the words 'time travel' I downloaded it without even reading the blurb completely. It was my first middle-grade book after HP series and I loved every bit of it. The book is as mysterious as it is endearing. Your heart is gripped by the constant flow of emotions that keeps oscillating from joy to sadness and then to child like wonder and back again.. I believe the book successively transcends the target audience and you will find yourself engaged as soon as you begin reading.

The author did a splendid work of making the characters memorable, little Cassie was too cute to put into words, little Josie and Alec were adorable and Mrs. Clifford was a thing of nightmare.

The book is still available on Net Galley for FREE, I strongly urge you to download it and have the pleasure of reading a really good book!

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I was so afraid that the grave would be of Cassie and I have no doubt in my mind if they did not have the connection to the future it could have been.

I ship Alec and Josie - I wanted them to meet and have a chance. The ending made me cry. I don't hate the ending but...but..

Oh well, Mrs.Grubbins NEED a book of her own. I need to need who she was/is and where she is and whether she found a listening ear like Cassie.

Such a sweet middle grade novel, with two timelines, and an adorable friendship. I think this book will appeal to many age ranges, but I would caution my more sensitive students because there is some child abuse in this novel. Overall, I would definitely add this to my classroom library- very unique story which is refreshing in the world of middle grade.

The Boy From Tomorrow is an intriguing story of friendship. It starts as ABan innocent friendship across state and time, then we encounter a plot twist that adds a new sense of urgency and mystery for Josie and Alec. I would definitely recommend this book to readers who enjoy mysteriesand fantasies.

The Boy from Tomorrow is a well-told, solid story and the true strength here lies in the characters. In the past, Josie and her little sister Cassie were simply charming, I wanted Emily to be my tutor, and the girls' mother is a powerful force. In the present, Alec was the star and his friend Danny was very likeable, too. The interactions between all of the children were very believable and there was a powerful sense of connection between them all. Once this story got rolling, I was truly enchanted by these children.

It took me a bit longer than I expected to get used to the writing style in this book, but once I found the rhythm, I was really pleased that the language wasn't dumbed-down at all. I also appreciated that DeAngelis didn't shy away from putting the children into situations that were truly unnerving. This made me care more about the characters and added a decent amount of tension to the plot. I can imagine the delicious sense of foreboding I would have felt if I'd read this as a preteen.

I'm always a sucker for books with alternating chapters that are handled well, and the author did not let me down there -- it was always very clear immediately which time we were in as a chapter began. Unfortunately, though, even with those alternating chapters, the story wasn't quite balanced enough for me, and that drops this book from being a 5-star, all-time favourite into the 3.5 to 4-star range.

The past is filled with a more detailed setting, in part because all of the action takes place in one location, while Alec roams around to different places in the present. But the past also features more fully-developed supporting characters than the present. The only contact we're shown with Alec's father decidedly did not go well, but then was never mentioned again, and we hear about his mother as more of a background character instead of playing a strong contrasting role to the girls' mother.

In addition, the startling tribulations the girls were facing in their time could have been better complemented by showing Alec's problems more starkly. His parent's divorce and fallout is glossed over somewhat. While we're *told* Alec is upset, and we see a brief scene with a counsellor, we're not really shown the true extent of his emotional distress. In fact, when his mother finally realizes that the girls from the past are real, she actually almost dismisses the idea that he had any emotional problems at all. This aspect of the story is begging for more depth, and could have been a wonderful portrayal of dealing with mental illness (anxiety/social anxiety) in the modern world.

A lot of the time it seemed like Alec from the future was teaching the naive girls from the past, when it would have been really interesting to see those lessons more obviously going both ways. One example is a falling out Alec has with a friend of a friend. The unease he felt about the interaction was very realistic, but Alec later comes to a very mature realization about that kid all on his own; it might have been interesting to show a stronger link to a lesson learned from his conversations with Josie.

On a final note, as an adult, I loved the ending, but I wonder whether its charm would hit the mark with a younger reader.

Overall, this was definitely an enjoyable read that I would recommend to the younger readers in my life. I just wish the depth of the present story had been enough that I'd want to shout about this book from the rooftops.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a free electronic ARC of this novel, received in exchange for an honest review.

Take a mother who could give "Mommy Dearest" a run for her money, two daughters trying to survive and find happiness, and a boy from the future. Lavinia Clifford is a spiritualist, using her spirit guides to provide clients with solace and information from beyond the grave. Her children are a bothersome fact of life, punished for every infraction by being locked in the linen cupboard all day, or worse. But when the girls sneak out their mother's spirit board, they are amazed to connect with a boy living in their own house 100 hundred years in the future from them. Alec is dealing with his parents' divorce and the move to a new home and new school. Making friends, visiting with the counselor his mother wants him to see, and worrying about his mother's unhappiness are all hard to bear. So the conversations with the sisters from the past are as much a pleasure for him as they are for the girls. Can these friends separated by a century actually help each other?

The blend of historical fiction for the Clifford sisters with the current setting of Alec makes some fascinating contrasts. Wax cylinders for phonographs as compared to iPods, or black and white moving pictures compared to today's brilliantly colored films with lavish soundtracks make the difference between the two time periods very obvious. The details about seances, research into the spiritual realm, and the various tools used are also relics from that time and will seem very odd to modern readers.

The bittersweet (almost) certainty that they will never meet haunts us as we read about their growing friendship. How will it all turn out? Can there be a happy ending for all of them? You will have to find out for yourself.

I've found that I typically stick to specific authors and genres, but something about this book called to me. I was wrapped in the story immediately and felt myself really connecting with both of the main characters. I was pulling for both of them even though I felt like it was impossible for things to work out for them. Not only was The Boy From Tomorrow engaging, but it had me really trying to figure out how things were going to happen due to this 100 year time gap.
I can't compare this book to any other book I've read, because it stands out to me so much as one of a kind. I was worried that I might not be the target audience for The Boy From Tomorrow, but it really is geared towards middle schoolers and adults alike. I think I've found my new favorite YA author!

This is a spooky story with a medium who communicates with spirits, a talking board, a graveyard, a cruel villain, a creepy doll who whispers to a little girl and a friendship across time.

Josie’s mother is twice-widowed and must earn a living for herself and her children. She does so as a medium, contacting spirits of the dead. She is fortunate to have wealthy patrons, and so she can afford a respectable home and a governess for her children. There was a bit of a scandal in her past, so she keeps her children isolated from the rest of world. Josie has no friends besides her sister, Cassie, and her governess, Emily. Though Josie is skeptical of her mother’s ability to really communicate with deceased people, she is also curious. She discovers a spirit board in the room her mother uses to do readings for her clients. She is startled to receive messages from some boys who claim to live one hundred years in the future.

Alec is a twelve-year-old boy whose parents are divorcing. He and his mom move to a new town and he ends up living in the same house where Josie lived in 1915. He and his friend find the spirit board when they are exploring the house. They start playing around with it and are spooked when it seems that spirits really are speaking to them.

The chapters of the novel alternate between these two timelines. Josie and Alec develop a real friendship over the course of the novel as they continue to use the board to talk to each other. Josie also writes letters to Alec and hides them away for him to find in the future. They are delighted to learn they can also communicate through a phonograph. This friendship sustains them through the difficulties of their individual lives.

While most children love a good ghost story, some may be frightened by the paranormal elements of the book. The book includes other material that may not be appropriate for all children, such as disturbing descriptions of cruelty and abuse of the two girls, Josie and Cassie. There is also a gruesome scene where an exotic bird is found dead.

Thanks to NetGalley for an ARC of this book!

My name is Josie, and I've been using a Ouija board to communicate with a boy named Alec who lives in my house, one hundred years in the future! I found it hard to believe at first, but he's shared information that proves he's real. My mother makes a living by communicating with spirits, but I wouldn't tell her about Alec. She's never been very loving, but her behavior is disturbing. She hit my little sister Cassie, locked her in a closet, and fired our tutor! Somehow, she found out about Alec and has forbidden me from talking to him. She wants to gain power and respect in society by taking credit for his information about the future. I wish I could someday meet Alec and escape this house, but can never be. He's given me ideas, but I am the only one who can save my future.


I found this book on Net Galley, and I enjoyed how the author slowly developed the conflict and suspense. It started as innocent curiosity between children from different eras but became a more serious tale of a powerful mother's domineering control of her home. The story used alternating chapters to share the events in the lives of Alec and Josie. Josie and Cassie were treated like prisoners, as they were often punished by being confined to their room and denied meals. Alec became obsessed with Josie and her problems and offered all the help he could from his world in 2016. Luckily, he had a friend named Danny to support him in his efforts. Alec's mom chalked up his strange behavior to her impending divorce, but she reluctantly had to accept the reality of the magic between her son and Josie. I normally read more adventurous and mysterious stories, but this one had me totally engaged. Perhaps it's my past experiences in working with young people, but I was very sympathetic to Josie's issues and Alec's attempts to help. The author and characters needed to balance the paradox of using knowledge of the future to affect those same events. It presented an intriguing conflict. Overall, this book was an emotional adventure of young people striving to make the most of their lives.

I was thrilled when I was approved to read this book that I had requested from Netgalley. It's a Wwonderful story, that surpasses its target audience of Middle School readers. A story of a friendship between two sisters, Josie and Cassie, and the boy in the future, Alec. It was sweet watching the friendship, trust and loyalty develop as the children communicated to each other over time.

The concern expressed by Alec for his friends was wonderful and meaningful, especially in this day and age, and with his family's looming divorce. The girl's mother was definitely a villain, who today would not have the same unending privileges as she once did.
I loved the tie in with the women's movement and the start of child abuse laws. I was very satisfied, yet sad, to see the story end. However, the author did a wonderful job tying up all the loose ends.

I completely recommend this book to readers of all ages and would like to thank *Netgalley/the publisher/the author for the opportunity to read this book and exchange for a fair and honest review".

This was a gobble-down book for me, read all in one session. It's 2:30 am and I just finished it, never for a moment was I bored enough to get sleepy. It may have been intended as a young adult novel, but the story transcends age. And yet, it's impossible to describe. One of my favorite authors, Diana Galbaldan, was once told her novels would have to be sold through word of mouth, because no review or publicity campaign could ever adequately convey how wonderful they are, or even what genre they fall into. Camille DeAngelis is in that rare category. The Boy From Tomorrow is a historical, fantasy, time-travel, coming-of-age, family relationship story. Yet nothing in it is anything like what Gabaldan (or anybody else) writes. Unique. Spellbinding. Trust me, you'll love it.

This story becomes interesting because the way the author stringing flashes of time. It could also make me want to get involved with time travel, if possible? Usually I see time travel only in movies only. But now reading the adventures of Alec in time travel, makes the reader feel drifting in the story. Especially when Alec and Josie also feel lonely. And the story is worth reading and very entertaining. #TheBoyFromTomorrow #NetGalley . Full review please chek at : http://meandthebooks.com/review-the-boy-from-tomorrow-by-camille-deangelis-time-travel-story/

A fun middle grade story about Josie, 1915, and Alec, 2015, who find themselves connected over the years through their home. A well constructed and enjoyable read.