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    A Week of Mondays: Chapters 1-9
    A Week of Mondays: Chapters 1-9
    A Week of Mondays: Chapters 1-9
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    A Week of Mondays: Chapters 1-9

    By Jessica Brody

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    Read the first nine chapters of A WEEK OF MONDAYS for free!

    When I made the wish, I just wanted a do-over. Another chance to make things right. I never, in a million years, thought it might actually come true . . .

    Sixteen-year-old Ellison Sparks is having a serious case of the Mondays. She gets a ticket for running a red light, she manages to take the world’s worst school picture, she bombs softball try-outs and her class election speech (note to self: never trust a cheerleader when she swears there are no nuts in her bake-sale banana bread), and to top it all off, Tristan, her gorgeous rocker boyfriend suddenly dumps her. For no good reason!

    As far as Mondays go, it doesn’t get much worse than this. And Ellie is positive that if she could just do it all over again, she would get it right. So when she wakes up the next morning to find she’s reliving the exact same day, she knows what she has to do: stop her boyfriend from breaking up with her. But it seems no matter how many do-overs she gets or how hard Ellie tries to repair her relationship, Tristan always seems bent set on ending it. Will Ellie ever figure out how to fix this broken day? Or will she be stuck in this nightmare of a Monday forever?

    From the author 52 Reasons to Hate My Father and The Unremembered trilogy comes Jessica Brody's hilarious and heartwarming story about second (and third and fourth and fifth) chances. Because sometimes it takes a whole week of Mondays to figure out what you really want.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMay 10, 2016
    ISBN9781466895874
    A Week of Mondays: Chapters 1-9
    Author

    Jessica Brody

    Jessica Brody knew from a young age that she wanted to be a writer. She started "self-publishing" her own books when she was seven years old, binding the pages together with cardboard, wallpaper samples and electrical tape. Brody graduated from Smith College in 2001 with a double major in Economics and French and a minor in Japanese. She went to work for MGM Studios as a Manager of Acquisitions and Business Development, and then, in 2005, she quit her job to follow her dream of becoming a published author. Brody is the author of two novels for adults--The Fidelity Files and Love Under Cover--and the young adult novels The Karma Club and My Life Undecided. Jessica's books are published in over ten foreign countries including the U.K., France, Germany, Czech Republic, Russia, Brazil, China, Portugal, and Taiwan. She now works full time as a writer and producer, and currently splits her time between Los Angeles and Colorado.

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      For Jim McCarthy,

      who asked to read more

      "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.

      Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

      —RUMI

      Monday, Monday. Can’t trust that day.

      —THE MAMAS THE PAPAS

      THE FIRST MONDAY

      Mountain High, Valley Low

      7:04 a.m.

      Bloop-dee-dee-bloop-bloop-bing!

      When my phone chimes with a text message on Monday morning, I’m still in that dreamy state between sleep and awake where you can pretty much convince yourself of anything. Like that a teen Mick Jagger is waiting in your driveway to take you to school. Or that your favorite book series ended with an actual satisfying conclusion, instead of what the author tried to pass off as a satisfying conclusion.

      Or that last night, you and your boyfriend didn’t have the worst fight of your relationship—correction: the only fight of your relationship.

      Or that it wasn’t completely your fault.

      Bloop-dee-dee-bloop-bloop-bing!

      But it was my fault.

      I blink out of my trance and scramble for the phone, knocking over the cup of water on my nightstand. It splashes onto the stack of textbooks and papers next to my bed, soaking the extra credit AP English paper on King Lear that I spent the entire weekend working on. This was my only hope of turning my borderline A to a solid A before first quarter grades are finalized.

      I hastily swipe at the lock screen of my phone.

      Please be from him. PLEASE be from him.

      We didn’t talk at all after I stormed off from his house last night. Some hopeful part of me thought he might call, not wanting to leave things the way we did. While some slightly delusional part of me thought he might have taken some unknown back roads and alleyways, driven twice the speed limit to beat me to my house, and would be standing in the front yard with his guitar, ready to play me an apologetic I’m a jerk, please forgive me love ballad that he just happened to write on the way over.

      (Okay, a really delusional part of me.)

      Regardless, neither had happened.

      My fingers fumble to open the text message app and I nearly collapse in relief when I see Tristan’s name. Twice.

      He sent me two text messages.

      The first says:

      Tristan: I can’t stop thinking about last night.

      Oh, thank God.

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