Circle Book series part 1-4. (kids like will: alternate)
Kate grammar is a boring loser who has stuck herself in a groundhog like a high school purgatory of aggressive boredom bound by her intense fear to take risks and live her life. Her gay, punk, well-read, nostalgic for the '60s before his time, rebellious party boy and frontman of a middling jersey glam rock band tries constantly to get kate, his BFF joined at the hip for all the years they have survived their middle-class suburban hell in the worst place on earth to have a teen awakening, new jersey Haddonfield. but when a mysterious foster kid moves into town, the abusive will draws kate into his massive secret time travel scheme that disrupts their boring lives forever, but not in the way they thought. by an accident after a massive fight between Nikki and Will for whos Kate's "real" best friend, and misplaced rushed peer pressure Will time-traveled Kate, Nikki, and their other best friend, the Muslim sex-obsessed dramatic party animal, who tends to take it all to far. get plopped in the middle of 1610 London England and now the four of them are stuck in the past they have to make up new personas and struggle to survive in the rough, Jacobian world. they realize they fun and freedom
