SuitabookPower and responsibility
Young people develop talents described as unimaginable, dangerous and deadly, while sides are chosen and conflict approaches.
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Michael Grant - Author
Michael Grant - Author
A high-stakes survival thriller where young people suddenly have to manage danger, scarcity and power without adults. It offers an intense imagined world of frightening change, rivalries and unresolved threat.
In the blink of an eye. Everyone disappears.Gone.Everyone except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not a single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Gone, too, are the phones, internet, and television. There is no way to get help.Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents—unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers—that grow stronger by the day.It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen and war is imminent.The first in a breathtaking saga about teens battling each other and their darkest selves, gone is a page-turning thriller that will make you look at the world in a whole new way.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA high-stakes survival thriller where young people suddenly have to manage danger, scarcity and power without adults. It offers an intense imagined world of frightening change, rivalries and unresolved threat.
Young people develop talents described as unimaginable, dangerous and deadly, while sides are chosen and conflict approaches.
Adults, teachers, police, doctors, parents and communication systems disappear, while hunger and bullying threaten the remaining young people.
Expect sustained peril in the premise: hunger, bullying, a sinister creature, mutating animals, dangerous powers and threatened war.
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