Our dog, Kingston, raises his ears, but still keeps his distance from the sink, unsure if it might unexpectedly come back to life, but no such luck. It coughs and wheezes like it’s gone asthmatic. The kitchen faucet makes the most bizarre sounds. Check out the book's cover and an excerpt from the novel below. 2, 2018, but if you can't wait for the story, don't worry - MashReads has a exclusive sneak peek at the novel. And Flint, Michigan, still doesn't have clean water, almost four years after it was revealed that the city's water was heavily contaminated with lead in 2014.ĭry doesn't come out until Oct. The rapid spread of those wildfires aided by years of drought. In 2017, Southern California faced historic wildfires that decimated 1.2M acres of land (opens in a new tab). Of course, it's hard not to see parallels between the plight of Dry and the environmental disasters in our current news cycle. 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,' the book outlines. 'Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation neighbors 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.Neal Shusterman redefines dystopian fiction with his 'Arc of the Scythe' seriesīut when Arizona and Nevada pull out of a vital reservoir relief deal that brings some of the country's scarce water supply to Southern California, Alyssa and her community are left dry.

Suddenly, Alyssa's quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. 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. The drought-or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it-has been going on for a while now. 'No one does doom like Neal Shusterman.' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman. 'The Shustermans challenge readers.' - School Library Journal (starred review) 'The palpable desperation that pervades the plot.feels true, giving it a chilling air of inevitability.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'The authors do not hold back.' - Booklist (starred review) Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, September 2019.

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