The Young World

by Chris Weitz

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Pub Date Jul 29 2014 | Archive Date Aug 05 2016

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Children's Fiction | Teens & YA

Description

"Chris Weitz has made a beautiful transition from writing and directing films to novels. The Young World is populated with characters you won't forget and a story as fresh and urgent as Divergent."--James Patterson, #1 NY Times bestselling author of Maximum Ride.
Welcome to New York, a city ruled by teens.
After a mysterious Sickness wipes out the rest of the population, the young survivors assemble into tightly run tribes. Jefferson, the reluctant leader of the Washington Square tribe, and Donna, the girl he's secretly in love with, have carved out a precarious existence among the chaos.
But when a fellow tribe member discovers a clue that may hold the cure for the Sickness, five teens set out on a life-altering road trip, exchanging gunfire with enemy gangs, escaping cults and militias, braving the wilds of the subway--all in order to save humankind.
This first novel from acclaimed film writer/director Chris Weitz is the heart-stopping debut of an action-packed trilogy.

Advance Praise

"The Young World is captivating with its constant action that will draw readers in and keep them enthralled until the very end. This intriguing debut includes realistic characters and a plot that hits close to home." –VOYA

"Weitz offers a satisfying YA interpretation of the Greek classic Anabasis, brimming with grisly encounters and gallows humor. He also finds room to touch upon issues of race, class, commercialism, and sexuality in nuanced moments that are sharply juxtaposed with the near-constant dangers and seeming hopelessness of the larger picture." –Publishers Weekly

"A twisted Neverland where you don't get older, you just die. . . The chaos [is] frighteningly plausible." –Kirkus

"The context of a broken NYC is so compelling that readers will find it hard to put this book down." –School Library Journal

"[A] fast-paced and vividly cinematic novel. I expected nothing less from Weitz, as he knows what works well on screen, and his descriptions are downright brilliant; everything he described I could see perfectly in my head." –Gem R.

"I. Devoured. It. Whole." –Alicia X.

"The Young World drew me in from the first page, and I couldn't tear myself away — not just because of the fast-paced plot and life-and-death stakes, but because of the engaging narrators, whose unique voices inject humor and compassion into a dreary apocalyptic world." –Leila N.

"The Young World is captivating with its constant action that will draw readers in and keep them enthralled until the very end. This intriguing debut includes realistic characters and a plot that...