Nijkamp, Marieke
9781464222696, 146422269X
Trade Paperback
 
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends comes an emotional and timely story of incarcerated teens fighting to stay alive amidst a deadly pandemic—now in paperback!
 
The Hope Juvenile Treatment Center is ironically named. No one has hope for the teenagers who have been exiled there; the world barely acknowledges that they exist.
 
Then the guards at Hope start acting strange. And one day…they don’t show up. At first, the teens are thrilled. But when they band together to make a break from the facility, they encounter soldiers outside the gates. There’s a rapidly spreading infectious disease outside, and no one can leave their houses or travel without a permit. Which means that they’re stuck at Hope for good. And this time, no one is watching out for them at all.
 
As supplies quickly dwindle and the plague passes through their ranks, the group must decide whom among them they can trust and how they can survive in a world that has never seemed to want them.