THE 9:09 PROJECT

Every night at 9:09 p.m., Jamison Deever goes to the same street corner to take pictures of whoever might be walking by. He posts his photographs on an anonymous website he calls The 9:09 Project-a tribute to his mother, who passed away at that time a few years before.

The website starts to get noticed by other photographers, even winning an award. Hundreds of people are writing in to share how the site helped them, and other tribute sites are popping up, inspired by Jamison's model. It's all very exciting that Jamison's art is making a difference in people's lives-until he gets outed as the site's creator. Now everyone at school-strangers, friends, girls-starts treating him differently, to the point where Jamison decides to take the site down.

Fortunately, Jamison has support: from his goofy but still grieving dad, his fashionista sister, and most of all his classmate Assi, who's also working through a loss. They swap photographs and writing projects, sharing ideas about art, grief, loneliness, privacy, and love-slowly becoming more important to each other than they could ever have imagined.

THE 9:09 PROJECT is funny, wise, and romantic as hell.

Mark Huntley Parsons has written approximately two hundred articles for national publications as well as a pair of non-fiction books. His first YA novel, ROAD RASH (Knopf, 2014) is a band-on-the-road novel which explores coming into adulthood and being responsible for one's decisions. It was named to the 2015 ALA/YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults list, as well as Bank Street College's Best Children's Books of the Year list.