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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 drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls...

Woody’s Walking Y Ranch is toast. Dry toast. Desiccated! Senator Bell rammed through a law with the grand title ‘Securing Montana’s Economic Development while Ensuring Respect for Existing Dry Gulch Water Rights’. Behind the legalese, the cunning politician’s act will deny life giving water to the Walking Y with a couple murders. The Senator’s allies, the Sicario clan, will enforce the evil intent of the law with sharp knives and blazing guns. A few bodies are but a modest price for this so-called progress.

What if you were forced to sail with pirates? Captured and tried for piracy. Then, sentenced to hang. Would you trade your body to the crew of the Flying Dutchman to save your soul? Ricky did. Some dead men do tell tales. And there is stolen treasure in this pirate story. Last winter, Ricky Bradshaw was another gangly freshman hoping to fit in - or at least not get picked on - and maybe catch the attention of Becky Nance, a girl in his biology class.

Niemand glaubte, dass es so weit kommen würde. Doch als Alyssa an einem heißen Junitag den Wasserhahn aufdreht, passiert nichts. Es kommt nicht ein Tropfen. Auch nicht bei den Nachbarn. In den Nachrichten heißt es nur, die Bewohner Kaliforniens sollen sich gedulden. Aber als das Problem nicht nur mehrere Stunden, sondern Tage bestehen bleibt, geduldet sich niemand mehr. Die Supermärkte und Tankstellen sind auf der Jagd nach Wasser längst leer gekauft, selbst die letzten Eisvorräte sind aufgebraucht. Jetzt geht es ums Überleben.

Sixteen-year-old Holly Bennett is a comic book nerd, a con artist, and a shaman. Most days Holly wishes she could trade in her power of spirit communication for something more useful - like fireballs or Wolverine claws. She knows spirits aren't exactly Casper the Friendly Ghosts. They're dangerous beings from Lower World who snack on human life, and messing with the magic from their world is an express ticket to big trouble. But when a shaman sticks her mom's mind between their world and ours, Holly becomes the unexpected breadwinner in the family.

The invaders came down to Earth in their ships and multi-legged battle armor, and we had no way to stop them from taking the water. The war was over in days. Sixteen-year-old Yasmine Whitten, born into this world, not only survives, but thrives. She's got a secret: her mother's old cell phone. Kept intact for 13 years of alien invasion and kept charged by a tiny solar panel, these two relics of a dead world give her sanity and a host of tools that allow her to stay ahead of the scavengers. he's doing well enough, for a teenager on her own in a ravaged world. Until the phone rings.