Click by Linda Sue Park, David Almond & others

The cover of this book looks like an old fashioned camera. This camera is important as the story progresses. This book sometimes focuses on photography, which has appeal for some. But, what I found interesting about this book is that each chapter is written by a different author.

The first chapter is written by Linda Sue Park (A Single Shard, Kite Fighters, The Mulberry Project, & others). She introduces the three main characters Maggie and Jason Henschler and George Keane "Gee". Each additional author gives further glimpses into moments or "snapshots" of an event in these characters lives.

The story begins with Maggie and Jason, learning that their grandpa "Gee" George Keane has died. He has left them each something to remember him by. Gee was a famous photographer, who is well known and has traveled all over the world meeting famous, infamous and just regular people and capturing photos of those meetings.

We learn a lot about these three characters as the story progress over decades. Plus, we learn some surprising things about Gee along the way, a secret past. Jason learns to value the family he has. Maggie learns to live without Gee and becomes some one on her own.

Some of these moments are set during world famous events, while others have yet to happen.

This book would be a great study of voice, style of writing first person etc, and genre. Most of the stories are written like historical fiction, but the final stories are science fiction.

This was a recommendation from Michael Bernard at Rakestraw in Danville, Ca. Thanks Michael, it was a good read!