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The Darkness Outside Us

by Eliot Schrefer

A rescue mission with secrets on board

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A rescue mission with secrets on board

Aboard the Coordinated Endeavor, Ambrose wakes with no memory of the launch and finds signs that the ship’s history is more complicated than he expected. His fellow passenger, Kodiak, is keeping his distance, though the two must depend on one another to pursue the mission: rescuing Ambrose’s sister. Their investigation turns the spaceship into the setting for a science-fiction mystery, while the growing need for trust brings a romantic thread into the story. The book’s central tension links the ship’s unanswered questions with the boys’ uneasy partnership, keeping the rescue mission and their relationship closely connected.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in science-fiction mysteries set aboard a spaceship.
  • Readers who enjoy stories combining a rescue mission with a romance between two boys.
  • Those interested in plots about trust and cooperation between initially hostile characters.

Themes

Trust and cooperationSecrets and memoryRescue and survivalRomance

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Book overview

They Both Die at the End meets Gravity in this mind-bending sci-fi mystery and tender love story about two boys aboard a spaceship sent on a rescue mission, from two-time National Book Award finalist Eliot Schrefer. Stonewall Honor Award winner!

Two boys, alone in space. Sworn enemies sent on the same rescue mission.

Ambrose wakes up on the Coordinated Endeavor with no memory of a launch. There's more that doesn't add up: evidence indicates strangers have been on board, the ship's operating system is voiced by his mother, and his handsome, brooding shipmate has barricaded himself away. But nothing will stop Ambrose from making his mission succeed--not when he's rescuing his own sister.

In order to survive the ship's secrets, Ambrose and Kodiak will need to work together and learn to trust each other . . . especially once they discover what they are truly up against. Love might be the only way to survive.

* Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books of the Year * A Booklist Editor's Choice of the Year * A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book of the Year * A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults & Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Book of the Year *

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