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Gone

by Michael Grant

A town without adults

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Awards & Recognition

  • Critical praise

    ALA Booklist starred review

    Starred review describing the book as a tour de force.

AlbakiReads Editorial

A town without adults

When every adult in a Southern California town vanishes, the young people left behind are cut off from the outside world and forced to organize their own survival. Sam Temple and his friends face emerging gangs, divisions between the strong and weak, and the appearance of unusual powers. The FAYZ setting gives the novel a framework for exploring how power and social order shift when familiar authorities disappear. As the opening book in a series, it introduces a crisis that extends beyond the initial mystery of the adults’ disappearance.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in post-apocalyptic science fiction.
  • Readers drawn to stories about survival, group conflict, and young people navigating a society without adults.
  • Fans of dystopian fiction featuring characters who develop unusual powers.

Themes

SurvivalPower and social orderCommunity conflictThe disappearance of authorityUnusual abilities

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Book overview

The first book in the bestselling cult YA thriller series GONE that Stephen King calls a "driving, torrential narrative."

"I am now free to leave the FAYZ, but my time there was well spent." --Stephen King

Welcome to the FAYZ.

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...

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. And if your teenage boys are reluctant to read, this is the series for them!

Have you read all 6 titles in the New York Times bestselling saga?

Gone
Hunger
Lies
Plague
Fear
Light

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