Sticky notes rim the mirror in rainbow colors. REMEMBER. DON’T FORGET HIM. READ THE NOTEBOOK. Remember what? Remember who? And what’s this about a notebook? There’s another note, bottom center of the mirror. THE DREAMS ARE REAL.Consumed by guilt over her brother’s death,
Choices begins in one time line, then fractures into multiple universes with every decision
The only stability, in each reality, is another shifter,
Like the branching limbs of a tree, each choice leads to new possibilities. There’s only one problem. You can’t go back and undo a decision. In the end,
Choices is a story about the choices we make while being true to ourselves. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews said, "Kathleen's melancholic tale does justice both to the moving story of a girl coming to terms with the death of her brother, and to the magical adventure of a universe-shifting girl trying to find her way home." http://teenlink.nypl.org/bta_2008-rev.pdf The Stellar Awards are British Columbia’s Teen Readers’ Choice Awards. Choices is a Teensreadtoo Gold Award winner and Hall of Fame winner. Deborah Lynn Jacobs says, “What if there were multiple copies of you, living out permutations of your life in an infinite number of realities? Call it what you like: multiple universes, the multiverse, parallel universes—quantum theory suggests they could exist. But we humans, with our limited powers of perception, are locked into knowing only one reality at a time. We can only imagine where our lives would lead us, had we made different choices along the way."
Choices is an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult readers, and was a finalist for the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.
It made the New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age list, under the category of "Dealing With It."
It's also a Stellar Award Nominee, 2009/2010. http://www.stellaraward.ca/2009/index.php