When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman.
The drought – or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it – has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take long showers.
Until the taps run dry.
Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbours and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. And when her parents don’t return and her life – and the life of her brother – is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she’s going to survive.
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Neal Shusterman is an award-winning author whose books include the New York Times bestselling Unwind series and Challenger Deep, which won a National Book Award, as well as the Arc of a Scythe series. He also writes screenplays for film and television, for shows such as Goosebumps and Animorphs. He lives in Southern California with his four children. Follow him on Twitter: @NealShusterman
Reviews
No one does doom like Neal Shusterman (Thunderhead, 2018, etc.)—the breathtakingly jagged brink of apocalypse is only overshadowed by the sense that his dystopias lie just below the surface of readers’ fragile reality, a few thoughtless actions away. He and his debut novelist son have crafted a world of dark thirst and fiery desperation, which, despite the tendrils of hope that thread through the conclusion, feels alarmingly near to our future.
Kirkus Reviews
Dry, by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman: Terrific, well-written novel about California running out of water. Couldn’t put it down.
Stephen King
I don’t need to rattle on about how amazing Shusterman’s writing is because honestly this guy is a GOD. I don’t think there is anything that he can’t write about. Shusterman is a prime example of how YA books should be written. Hands down my favourite and yep this guy cannot do any wrong in my eyes. Like EVER.
Blue Fairy Tales
It’s a ticking time bomb of cosmic proportions because after a finite amount of time, thirst will kill. Tense and electric to the very end, Dry will raise your heartbeat in a way that only dying of thirst can. I recommend you satisfy that thirst soon.
Boomerang Books
The authors packed so much into those 399 pages and everything was tied up neatly by the end of the book which was so refreshing. I certainly can’t wait for this duo to cowrite again.
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