BooksRock.com - Kids Books At Amazing Low Prices!

The source has been destroyed. Food is scarce. Tensions are rising. Then the earthquake strikes.

Esther and Caleb hit the road, leading a ragtag caravan. Their destination? A mythical city where they hope to find food and shelter . . . not to mention a way to make it past age nineteen.

On the way, alliances and romances blossom and fracture as the group faces vicious gangs, violent weather, and more variants. Esther must rally to take charge, accepting the help of a blind wilderness guide, Aras. He seems unbelievably cruel, but not everything is what it appears to be. . . .

When the former Prin citizens reach safety, their new home is as perfect as they imagined. But it's also far more dangerous than they could have ever feared.

Welcome back to the Wasteland.

Susan Kim is a five-time Emmy nominee for her work in children's television and a Writers Guild Award winner for best documentary. She wrote the stage adaptation of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, teaches writing at Goddard College, and blogs for the Huffington Post. With Laurence Klavan she wrote the graphic novels City of Spies and Brain Camp. When she was growing up there was a chain-link fence behind her family's apartment that led to a small woods. After dinner all the kids would sneak through to play in a world where there were no adult intruders. The memory of that has always stayed with her.

Laurence Klavan is the Edgar Award-winning author of Mrs. White. His other novels include The Cutting Room and The Shooting Script. He received two Drama Desk nominations for the book and lyrics to Bed and Sofa, a musical produced by New York's Vineyard Theatre. With Susan Kim he cowrote the graphic novels City of Spies and Brain Camp. As kids, he and his three brothers used to make epic movies in their backyard, reenacting the Alamo, the signing of the Magna Carta, and the end of the world.

Laura Knight Keating, an Audie Award-winning narrator, is an actress who has appeared on stage, in films, and on television shows, including Boardwalk Empire, Hope and Faith, and Lipstick Jungle.