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Dry

by Neal Shusterman

Survival as the taps run dry

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Survival as the taps run dry

In Dry, a California drought turns ordinary restrictions into a crisis when the water supply stops altogether. Alyssa’s suburban neighborhood becomes a place of competing needs, and the danger reaches her own family when her parents fail to return. The premise connects a large-scale environmental emergency with immediate decisions about protecting her younger brother and finding water. Its survival story is grounded in a familiar domestic setting, where neighbors and families are drawn into conflict over a dwindling resource.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in survival fiction.
  • Readers drawn to stories about family responsibility during a disaster.
  • Readers interested in fictional explorations of water scarcity and community conflict.

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SurvivalWater scarcityFamily responsibilityCommunity under pressure

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Book overview

When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman.

The drought--or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it--has been going on for a while now. Everyone's lives have become an endless list of don'ts: don't water the lawn, don't fill up your pool, don't take long showers.

Until the taps run dry.

Suddenly, Alyssa's quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. And when her parents don't return and her life--and the life of her brother--is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she's going to survive.
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