Michael GrantGone Series for Young Adults (6 Books)

About

The Gone series is Lord of the Flies for the 21st century. In turns breathtaking, harrowing, and utterly terrifying. Its complex characters and moral dilemmas will delight fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner. This is dystopian fiction at its best.

“These are exciting, high-tension stories told in a driving, torrential narrative that never lets up … Most of all, there are children I can believe in and root for. This is great fiction.” Stephen King.

Michael Grant on The Gone Series:

Why did I write the Gone series? Well, in my head I imagine this reader. Sometimes it’s a girl, sometimes it’s a boy. It changes. But in any case, there’s this reader. And I want that reader to pick up Gone, and to be unable to put it down until they have read every word. I want that reader to forget everything else going on around them and become completely engrossed. When they’re done with the first book, I want them to need that next book desperately. I want to surprise that reader and scare that reader and make and make that reader fall in love. In the end, I want the reader to put down the book and think, “Man, that was fun.

Gone

In the blink of an eye, all the adults disappear in a small town in southern California, and no one knows why. Cut off from the outside world, those that are left are trapped, and there’s no help on the way. Sam Temple and his friends must do all they can to survive. Chaos rules the streets. Gangs begin to form. Sides are chosen – strong or weak. Cruel or humane. And then there are those who begin to develop powers...

Hunger

An uneasy calm has settled over Perdido Beach. But soon, fear explodes into desperation as food supplies dwindle and starvation sets in. More and more kids are developing strange powers and, just as frighteningly, so are the animals in the FAYZ: talking coyotes, swimming bats and deadly worms with razor-sharp teeth are just the beginning. For Sam Temple, the strain of leadership is beginning to show, and he's got more than just dwindling rations and in-fighting to worry about - Caine is back with the psychotic whip hand, Drake, by his side. And deep in the ground, the biggest danger of all is getting hungry . . .

Lies

It happens in one night: a girl who died now walks among the living, Zil and the Human Crew set fire to Perdido Beach, and amid the flames and smoke, Sam sees the figure of the boy he fears the most. As life in the FAYZ becomes more desperate, no one knows who they can trust.

Plague

The disease is spreading through the streets of Perdido Beach: a devastating, hacking cough that makes the sufferers choke their guts up - literally. Across town, Little Pete lies unconscious, struck down by the mysterious illness. With the most powerful mutant in the FAYZ out of action, the future of the world hangs in the balance...

Fear

The night is falling in the FAYZ. Permanently. The gaiaphage has blotted out the sun and the barrier that surrounds the town of Perdido Beach is turning black. It's Sam's worst nightmare. With Astrid still missing and Edilio and Lana struggling to maintain order, Sam and his followers need all the courage they can get. As their world descends into darkness, only real heroes will survive.

Light

All eyes are on Perdido Beach. The barrier wall is now as clear as glass and life in the FAYZ is visible for the entire outside world to see. Life inside the dome remains a constant battle and the Darkness, away from watchful eyes, grows and grows ... The society that Sam and Astrid have struggled so hard to build is about to be shattered for good. It's the end of the FAYZ. Who will survive to see the light of day? This is the nail-biting finale to the GONE saga.