Empty
by:
Suzanne Weyn (author)
A dystopic look at what happens to one American town when all the fossil fuels run out...Civilization has just run out.It's the future - the very near future - and the fossil fuels are running out. No gas. No oil. Which means no driving. No heat. Supermarkets are empty. Malls have shut down. Life...
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A dystopic look at what happens to one American town when all the fossil fuels run out...Civilization has just run out.It's the future - the very near future - and the fossil fuels are running out. No gas. No oil. Which means no driving. No heat. Supermarkets are empty. Malls have shut down. Life has just become more local than we ever knew it could be.Nobody expected the end to come this fast. And in the small town of Sage Valley, decisions that once seemed easy are quickly becoming matters of life and death. There is hope - there has to be hope - but there are also sacrifices that need to be made, and a society that needs to be rethought. Niki, Tom, and Gwen may find what they need to survive. But their lives are never going to be the same again.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780545172790 (0545172799)
Publish date: January 1st 2012
Publisher: Scholastic Books
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Yet another example of "promising premise, shoddy execution". Examples of the writing in this book: "he was a football player, not a thinker" "she felt a fireball of happiness" If that seems like good writing to you, by all means, go for it. Otherwise, move along.
This is a book set in future not so far from the present where oil is severely running out and due to the chain of events that follow the lives of the residents of Sage Valley and Marietta must change in order to survive. The story follows the lives of three teens. Tom, a football player from an ave...
This book had a lot of potential. I really enjoyed the premise of the book, where the world's oil is depleting. Overall, I was disappointed with the book. I felt that it focused too much on juvenile love triangles and not enough on the plot.
When I read the summary of this novel I was very excited and could not wait to get started reading it. At first the characters were interesting and I liked how the setting was not vastly different from our current world. However, this story seemed to just keep strolling along. I felt no suspense or ...
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