Alex is different, too (her formerly dead sense of smell is now nearly supernaturally strong), and the companions worry about their own potential to 'Change' as they attempt to find other survivors. Aside from wrecking their equipment, the pulse has killed most adults and morphed young people into psychotic flesh-eating monsters that are soon dubbed the Changed. Miles from nowhere, she hikes with new companions―an obstinate eight-year-old orphan named Ellie and a young soldier named Tom―as they try to make sense of things. While camping in a national park in Michigan, 17-year-old Alex, a girl coping with a brain tumor and the side effects of its treatment, survives a series of electromagnetic pulses that may have taken out the entire world. " Bick delivers an action-packed tale of an apocalypse unfolding, launching a trilogy with flair. The consequence of the focus on action and incident is limited characterization, but an open ending reassures fans that there will be other opportunities to know Alex and to unravel the mystery of Rule." ― Booklist ( Journal) Bick understands the effects (and affect) she produces, though, and offsets such moments with ordinary things like falling in love, feeling safe, and even fishing. This is an affecting postapocalyptic tale that divides its time between survival story and horror, as when readers encounter the vividly described results of the EMPs and zombie attacks. But Rule is a town of factions and unease, and what Alex discovers about its undercurrents may kill her. She eventually finds herself safe―or so she thinks―in Rule, where a council of church elders holds sway.
"Seventeen-year-old Alex is alone on a Michigan mountainside when electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) released into the atmosphere above Earth shut down power and communications grids, trigger nuclear devices, and turn most adolescents into flesh-eating zombies. Highly Recommended." ―starred review, Library Media Connection ( Journal) Bick has a winner with this series and your students, including reluctant readers, will love it. Oh, and did I mention the Zombies? Fans of Hunger Games, and Everlost will be looking for the next book. Forming a small family with a little girl whose grandfather was killed and a young solider named Tom, Alex faces a new and terrifying world.
However, she becomes an unexpected survivor of an EMP, electromagnetic pulse, that destroys every electronic device and leaves billions of people dead. The story opens with Alex, a teenage survivalist backpacking to a remote area to scatter her parents' ashes and deal with her own impending death from a brain tumor. "This book is the first in a new dystopian thriller trilogy.
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