Rook and Gage live worlds apart — but somehow they must find a way to help one another survive. Trapped in a life she didn’t choose, Rook struggles to find meaning in her appointed role as an apprentice Keeper of ArHK. Even though her mam soothes her with legends of the Outside and her da assures her there are many interesting facts to discover in the Archives, Rook sees only endless years of tracking useless information. Then one day Rook discovers historic footage of the Chosen Ones arriving...
In a world not unlike our own, a distant land is stricken by a mysterious purple cloud - a natural or man-made disaster. Children in a land of plenty force their elders to act to save their spiritual brothers and sisters who are suffering in another land half a world away.
Ash boards a Greyhound bus heading to the place where Bly was last seen: Snowflake, Arizona. Six thousand feet up in the wide red desert, Ash meets Mona, her dog, her goat, and her neighbors, and finds stepbrother Bly, too. In their ramshackle homes, the walls lined with tinfoil, almost all the residents of Snowflake are sick. But this isn’t any ordinary sickness: the chemicals and technologies of modern life are poisoning them. They call themselves canaries, living warning signs that humans hav...
From Printz Award winner and National Book Award finalist Paolo Bacigalupi comes the third companion novel in the dystopic Ship Breaker universe. Set in a future swamped by rising seas, depleted resources, corporate government, and civil war, this novel stars the most provocative, most talked-about, most controversial character from Paolo Bacigalupi's highly acclaimed books Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities, and pulls no punches in exploring the gray areas between what it means to be human--an...
Riveting, powerful, and a little bit magical, Fault Lines offers readers a slow-burn romance alongside an unflinching examination of socio-economics, gender expectations, and environmental ethics.Ever since her aunt died four months ago, seventeen-year-old Vivian (Viv) Spry is aching to figure out where she belongs. Her father has become emotionally distant and even her best friend has found a new sense of identity in her theater group. Unfortunately, nobody in her rural West Virginia town has t...
Award-winning author Victoria Williamson marks her debut into YA fiction with this explosive dystopian survival story. It's the year 2123, and 16-year-old Adina has just accidentally killed 14,756 people. Raised in the eco-bubble of Eden Five, Adina has always believed that the Amonston Corporation’s giant greenhouse would keep her safe forever. But when her own careless mistake leads to an explosion that incinerates Eden Five, she and a small group of survivors must brave the barren wastelands...
The tables have turned on the mainland, and whilst the Resistance try to build a haven for refugees seeking safety, new dangers approach from overseas, with allegiances unknown. As fear of the Descendants' retribution rises, Peridot, Euan, and their friends are left with no choice other than to seek the help of Vallaeartha as she battles desperately to control the darkness inside of her. In this explosive conclusion to the Earthlings trilogy both loyalties and friendships are tested, as Pe...
Shortlisted for the Laugh Out Loud Book Awards 2023!A fresh, funny, heartfelt look at this generation’s must-win battle: one earth, one chance.It’s the summer holidays, and thirteen-year-old Luke’s life has been turned upside down. First his older sister Rose moved ‘across the road’, where a community of climate rebels is protesting the planned airport expansion. Then his dad followed her.Dad only went to get Rose back, but now he’s out there building totem poles, wearing sandals and drinking me...
In the beginning, Celia seemed like a normal kid, but then... I crept out onto the balcony while Mum, Dad and Big Olive talked...."I've seen how she is and I'm almost certain she is going to turn out like Hetty," said Big Olive. "It's the wohunk streak..."
“A whip-smart tale that asks big, bold questions of how we can save the planet.” Laura Lam“A smart, brilliantly realized call to arms.” The Observer“Frighteningly clever and richly imagined.” Laura Wood, author of A Sky Painted GoldIn a climate catastrophe ... resistance is taking root.Gabrielle is a climate-change activist who shoots to fame when she becomes the first teenager to display a supernatural ability to grow plants from her skin. Hester is the millionaire daughter of an oil tycoon and...
A million thoughts, but only one right thing to do.Eighteen-year-old Serenity Ashdown has a brilliant mind: she counts, calculates, and analyzes everything, all the time. Awkward. When her father suddenly disappears, Serenity follows his trail to a parallel dimension. The feds on the other side claim to want to help her go home, if she helps them reconstruct the right codes for the portal between worlds. But it's soon clear they want something more: a gateway for invasion, because this version o...