![]() ![]() Mullin has created a disturbingly realistic world, and his narration is detailed and believable. “The story hits the pavement running and doesn’t stop until the very last sentence. “Teens who enjoyed Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games (Scholastic, 2008) and Michael Grant’s Gone (HarperTeen, 2008) will find Mullin’s story equally engaging.” –School Library Journal. “How would you rate this book? 6 Even better than 5!!” –Donny, Teen Reviewer for Bethesda Library’s YALSA YA galley program. Los Angeles Public Library, Best Teen Reads of 2012ĥP, 5Q rating in VOYA–the highest rating for writing quality and teen interest they award. ![]() When the unthinkable happens, Alex must find new reserves of strength and determination to survive. But the landscape they cross is even more perilous than before, with life-and-death battles for food and power between the remaining communities. Alex and Darla decide they can wait no longer and must retrace their journey into Iowa to find and bring back Alex’s parents to the tenuous safety of Illinois. It’s also been six months of waiting for Alex’s parents to return from Iowa. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex’s relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this series. ![]() It’s been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. ![]()
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