She kicks off a national book tour for "The Swap" with a free event Sept. This book is really about learning how to be yourself by spending a little time being somebody else." Everything is changing - your body, your brain, your perspective. Middle school students, Shull says, are at "such a delicate and transformative age. "The Swap," her fourth book, is being described as "Freaky Friday" with a twist - it is told through the alternating perspectives of a boy and girl who switch bodies on the first day of middle school and have to figure out how to survive as each other. When they put down the book, I want them to be smiling, and feel more hopeful, less alone and more inclined to look out for one another." "I very much want to help kids feel better. "I'm not an author who pretends to not have a message," says Shull '91, M.S. Ithaca-based author Megan Shull brings a personal philosophy to her writing for young people, including "The Swap," a novel published in August by HarperCollins. Ithaca-based author Megan Shull '91, M.S.
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