Untethered

Sixteen-year-old Sylvie has: 1. A freaky ability to leave her body. 2. A bad case of unrequited love for her high school's swim star. 3. A good dose of envy for her best friend. And a wicked plan to reconcile all three. Junior year is off to a less than stellar start for Sylvie: Her parents are splitting up, her little brother is sitting at her lunch table, and she's the target of the school bully. Plus, she accidentally astral projects, slipping out of her body again and again at all...
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Sixteen-year-old Sylvie has: 1. A freaky ability to leave her body. 2. A bad case of unrequited love for her high school's swim star. 3. A good dose of envy for her best friend. And a wicked plan to reconcile all three. Junior year is off to a less than stellar start for Sylvie: Her parents are splitting up, her little brother is sitting at her lunch table, and she's the target of the school bully. Plus, she accidentally astral projects, slipping out of her body again and again at all the worst times. Sylvie is cast as the class freak and a medical misfit. She wishes she were somewhere else. Someone else. But it's only when her best friend catches the attention of the boy Sylvie's loved in secret since the fifth grade that Sylvie makes up her mind to do something drastic. She plans to become someone else. Quite literally. Only nothing in this body swap goes the way she'd intended.Untethered by Katie Hayoz explores the intoxicating and dangerous world of jealousy and obsession when coupled with paranormal ability. It is a touching, sometimes funny, sometimes heart-breaking novel that speaks to the self-doubt lurking in us all. ****Indie B.R.A.G. Medallion ***Runner up in the Mslexia Children's and YA Novel Competition.