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It seems like more and more authors are writing about how they think the world will come to an end. Piers Torday, author of THE LAST WILD is yet another author to do this. His main character Kester Jaynes has been taken from his father and sent to what may be a boarding school, but seems more like an asylum for all the delinquent children no one knows how to deal with. A disease has devastated the world, killing all the animals and destroying the food supply, and now everyone is forced to eat flavored paste. Kester can't speak out loud, but somehow he can communicate with a cockroach. Turns out, everything they've been telling humans is a LIE!!! The cockroach helps Kester escape and the first of the lies becomes apparent when Kester sees living animals that have yet to be infected by the dreaded "red-eye" disease. Now it is up to Kester to save the remaining animals!
For grades 5 and up.
AUGUST 2014
The year that children turn 12, their minds are capable of almost anything. Learning a new language, taking on advanced mathematics, and moving things with their minds are simple tasks for the trained tween. At Myers Holt Academy, a few select children are recruited to harness and train what researchers call "The Ability" - where anything is possible. One of this year's students is Christopher Lane. A boy with a hard home life and not many prospects, Chris has the opportunity of a lifetime, but at a price. The students of Myers Holt Academy will be asked to put their lives at risk to save the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from the deadliest use of The Ability, something most people only hears stories about - The Inferno.
Fans of the Harry Potter and Percy Jackson series will appreciate taking a normal, misunderstood kid and placing him in a setting where the world is at his fingertips. The Ability by M.M. Vaughn is for students in Grades 5 and up.
