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Ilsa J. Bick

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An electromagnetic pulse flashes across the sky, destroying every electronic device, wiping out every computerized system, and killing billions. When it happens, Alex was hiking in the woods to say good-bye to her dead parents and her personal demons. Now desperate to find out what happened after the pulse crushes her to the ground, Alex meets up with Tom--a young soldier--and Ellie, a girl whose grandfather was killed by the EMP. For this improvised family and the others who are spared, it's now a question of who can be trusted and who is no longer human.

Author Ilsa J. Bick crafts a terrifying and thrilling novel about a world that could be ours at any moment, where those left standing must learn what it means not just to survive, but to live amidst the devastation.

Book Details

Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab (R)
Publish Date: Aug 28th, 2012
Pages: 480
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 1.40in - 1.35lb
EAN: 9781606843857
Recommended age: 14-18
Categories: • Action & Adventure - Survival Stories• Horror• Science Fiction - General

About the Author

Bick, Ilsa J.: - Ilsa J. Bick is a child psychiatrist, as well as a film scholar, surgeon wannabe, former Air Force major, and an award-winning, best-selling author of short stories, e-books, and novels. She has written extensively in the Star Trek, Battletech, Mechwarrior: Dark Age, and Shadowrun universes. Her original stories have been featured in numerous anthologies, magazines and online venues. Ilsa's YA paranormal, Draw the Dark, was also a semifinalist for the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (as Stalag Winter). Ilsa currently lives with her family and other furry creatures in rural Wisconsin and across the street from the local Hebrew cemetery. One thing she loves about the neighbors: They're very quiet and come around for sugar only once in a blue moon.

Praise for this book

"Bick has a winner with this series and your students, including reluctant readers, will love it." --starred review, Library Media Connection

-- (1/1/2012 12:00:00 AM)

"Bick takes the best of post-apocalyptic, zombie fiction and adds...the exact thing that has been sorely lacking from those genres: girl power, and in a heaping dose." --starred, VOYA

-- (10/1/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"The novel is equal parts horrifying and riveting, and many teens will be compelled to devour it in one sitting." --School Library Journal

-- (10/1/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"[A]n impeccable sci-fi/horror balance, quick pace, and risky storytelling all live up to the jacket's promise." --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

-- (10/1/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"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." --Booklist

-- (9/15/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"Splendidly paced apocalyptic zombie horror ends with a thrilling, terrifying cliffhanger and a number of unresolved mysteries." --Kirkus Reviews

-- (6/28/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"Bick delivers an action-packed tale of an apocalypse unfolding, launching a trilogy with flair." --Publishers Weekly

-- (6/11/2011 12:00:00 AM)