Changers Book One: Drew Format: Paperback

The cheerleader, the nerd, the jock, the freak. What if you had to be all four?

―Winner of the 2015 Westchester Fiction Award

“Changers should appeal to a broad demographic. Teenagers, after all, are the world’s leading experts on trying on, and then promptly discarding, new identities.” ―New York Times Book Review

“‘Selfie’ backlash has begun: The Unselfie project wants to help people quit clogging social media with pictures of themselves and start capturing the intriguing world around them.”―O, the Oprah Magazine on the We Are Changers Unselfie project

Part of Akashic’s Black Sheep YA imprint.

Changers Book One: Drew opens on the eve of Ethan Miller’s freshman year of high school in a brand-new town. He’s finally sporting a haircut he doesn’t hate, has grown two inches since middle school, and can’t wait to try out for the soccer team. At last, everything is looking up in life.

Until the next morning. When Ethan awakens as a girl.

Ethan is a Changer, a little-known, ancient race of humans who live out each of their four years of high school as a different person. After graduation, Changers choose which version of themselves they will be forever―and no, they cannot go back to who they were before the changes began.

Ethan must now live as Drew Bohner―a petite blonde with an unfortunate last name―and navigate the treacherous waters of freshman year while also following the rules: Never tell anyone what you are. Never disobey the Changers Council. And never, ever fall in love with another Changer. Oh, and Drew also has to battle a creepy underground syndicate called “Abiders” (as well as the sadistic school queen bee, Chloe). And she can’t even confide in her best friend Audrey, who can never know the real her, without risking both of their lives.

Fans of the books of John Green, the Joss Whedonverse―and empathy between humans―will find much to love in this first of a four-part series that tracks the journey of an average suburban boy who becomes an incredible young woman . . . who becomes a reluctant hero . . . who becomes the person she was meant to be.

Because, while changing the world can kinda suck, it sure beats never knowing who you really are.

T Cooper is an author, television writer, journalist, and filmmaker whose groundbreaking work has been pushing boundaries both in print and on screen for twenty years. He currently serves as executive producer and writer on The Blacklist, and is the author of nine books, including two best-selling novels. Cooper’s feature documentary Man Made has screened at more than eighty film festivals worldwide, winning fourteen Best Documentary jury and audience awards―in addition to a Sundance Institute Grant (the film is currently available for streaming on Amazon Prime). Cooper is a professor of English and creative writing at Emory University, and one half of Holler Beach Productions.

ALLISON GLOCK-COOPER is the author of the New York Times notable book Beauty Before Comfort, which Kirkus called, "A memoir as elemental as its subject: pulsing, fetching, leaving a strong afterglow," and for which she received a Whiting Award. Glock has been a journalist for twenty-two years, and her work has been published in the New York Times, GQ, Rolling Stone, Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, O, The Oprah Magazine, Elle, Marie Claire, Garden & Gun, and many others. The Changers YA Series is her first collaboration in print with T Cooper.