![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. The virus only infects teenagers in their peak puberty years, making them lethal to adults and children until they finish adolescence. When an explosion rocks David and Wills suburban high school one morning, a deadly virus is unleashed on the school. "Take Michael Grant's Gone and Veronica Roth's Divergent, rattle them in a cage until they're ready to fight to the death, and you'll have something like this nightmarish debut.Thomas' whirlwind pace, painful details, simmering sexual content, and moments of truly shocking ultra-violence thrust this movie-ready high school thriller to the head of the class." - Booklist (starred review) The Loners Quarantine Series Book 1 by Lex Thomas. In this frighteningly dark and captivating novel, a 2012 Booklist Editor's Choice, Lex Thomas locks readers inside a school where kids don't fight to be popular, they fight to stay alive. It's just him and his little brother, Will, against the whole school. Violent gangs have formed based on high school social cliques. All the students are infected with a virus that makes them deadly to adults. And that was just the beginning.Ī year later, McKinley has descended into chaos. When loner David Thorpe tried to help his English teacher to safety, the teacher convulsed and died right in front of him. It was just another ordinary day at McKinley High-until a massive explosion devastated the school. " As original as The Hunger Games, set within the walls of a high school exactly like yours." - Kami Garcia, New York Times best-selling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures novels ![]()
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