A Wish After Midnight

Genna Colon is a fifteen-year-old girl living in Brooklyn. She doesn?t have a lot to show for herself besides bad hair, an impossible crush on a classmate, and a dysfunctional family. What she does have?an intelligence beyond her peers?is not winning her many friends in school, so she seeks safe haven in her favorite place in the city: a quiet, enclosed garden with a fountain. When Genna flees into her sanctuary late one night, she makes a desperate wish and finds herself instantly transported back in time to Civil War?era Brooklyn. Displaced in the past, Genna realizes she has eluded one harsh reality only to surface in another. She must confront new horrors and all-too-familiar prejudices, while holding tightly to a cover-story that threatens to unravel at any moment. A Wish After Midnight is a cautionary tale, but author Zetta Elliott