Someday

Parents need to know that David Levithan's Someday is the author's third novel about real-life high school girl Rhiannon and the character called A, who wakes every morning in the body of a different teen. As in the previous books, Every Day and Another Day, the nature of this premise raises -- or rather erases -- questions about the importance of gender identity, sexual orientation, and physical appearance. Likewise, race, class, and nationality are rendered almost meaningless. What matters is the love between individuals who support and understand each other. This novel includes a little profanity (including "f--k" once or twice), teens kissing, and a couple of references to sex, though there's no graphic sexual activity in the book. There's some violence: A teen boy is bullied and beaten badly, and another boy is threatened with a knife and later struck in the knee with a baseball bat. The bodiless character X brags about his power to commit murder. One character is told he was possessed by the devil, and though readers know this is false, the power struggle between good and bad in the world of the novel may read like a struggle for the boy's soul.