Junah at the End of the World | Dan Leach
Set in Upstate South Carolina in the months leading up to Y2K, Junah at the End of the World follows twelve-year old Junah Simmons as he confronts the iconic catastrophes of youth--falling in love, finding one's self, and surviving public school--while wrestling with the notion that the world itself could end in December. Junah's odyssey through this existential landscape is kicks off with an assignment from his teacher to convert a shoebox into a time capsule and fill it with "things that tell what it was like to be alive in Carolina at the end of the world."