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Neal Shusterman is back!

Just months after the release of his new novel Thunderhead in his Arc of the Scythe series, National Book Award-winning author Shusterman has a new novel, Dry, that explores what would happen if the United States ran out of water.

The dystopian climate tale, co-written with his son Jarrod Shusterman, follows Alyssa, a teenage girl living in California during an extreme drought, which everyone calls “the flow crisis,” and then “the Tap-Out.”

“That’s what the media’s been calling the drought, ever since people got tired of hearing the word ‘drought,'” Alyssa explains in the novel. “Kind of like the way ‘global warming’ became ‘climate change,’ and ‘war’ became ‘conflict.’ But now they’ve got a new catchphrase. A new stage in our water woes. They’re calling this the ‘Tap-Out.'” Read more…

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If there is one person who has shaped the landscape of young adult pop culture, it’s Neal Shusterman.

The prolific author, perhaps best known for the Unwind Dystology and The Accelerati Triligoy, has been writing for a variety of mediums — books, film, TV, and games — since the ’80s, including writing for the Goosebumps and Animorphs TV series and the Disney channel original movie Pixel Perfect.

Now Shusterman is back, and this time he’s turning dystopian literature on its head with his new Arc of the Scythe series.

The Arc of the Scythe series dives into a utopian world where death has been defeated. In this perfect world, a governing body called the Scythes decides who dies “but everyone accepts it because everybody knows that this order is made up of the most compassionate humans in the world.” Read more…

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