On CCBC's Best Books for Kids and Teens list 2013 Ontario Library Association Best Bets List 2013 Honourable mention On Resource Links' Best of 2013 list What would you do if you only had one week to live? A skateboarding accident claims 14-year-old Jade's life when she skitches (hitches herself to a car) in order to appear on youtube; she neglected to wear the helmet she promised her father she would always use. In a Japanese garden she meets her mother who died when Jade was eight. She begs for the chance to return to earth if only to improve relations between her brother and father and Mom negotiates a one week do-over for her.


Winner of the 1996 Silver Birch Children’s Choice Award and the 1997 Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award for Bringing Up Beauty, Sylvia McNicoll has written over 20 books, including short stories, first chapter books, fiction for middle-grade and reluctant readers, and novels for young adults.