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The Emmy Award nominee and Edgar Award-winning duo return readers to the postapocalyptic teen world, the Wasteland, in this thrilling sequel. Bestselling author of Criminal, Karen Slaughter, called Wasteland "a Lord of the Flies for future generations. An irresistible page-turner."

The former citizens of Prin are running out of time. The Source has been destroyed, so food is scarcer than ever. Tensions are rising . . . and then an earthquake hits.

With heart-pounding adventure and suspense, the stakes are even higher for Esther, Caleb, and the rest of their clan. They're pinning all their hopes on the road . . . but what if it's the most dangerous place of all?

Susan Kim is a five-time Emmy nominee for her work in children's television and a Writers Guild Award winner for best documentary. She wrote the stage adaptation of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, teaches writing at Goddard College, and blogs for the Huffington Post. With Laurence Klavan she wrote the graphic novels City of Spies and Brain Camp. When she was growing up there was a chain-link fence behind her family's apartment that led to a small woods. After dinner all the kids would sneak through to play in a world where there were no adult intruders. The memory of that has always stayed with her.

Laurence Klavan is the Edgar Award-winning author of Mrs. White. His other novels include The Cutting Room and The Shooting Script. He received two Drama Desk nominations for the book and lyrics to Bed and Sofa, a musical produced by New York's Vineyard Theatre. With Susan Kim he cowrote the graphic novels City of Spies and Brain Camp. As kids, he and his three brothers used to make epic movies in their backyard, reenacting the Alamo, the signing of the Magna Carta, and the end of the world.

Laura Knight Keating, an Audie Award-winning narrator, is an actress who has appeared on stage, in films, and on television shows, including Boardwalk Empire, Hope and Faith, and Lipstick Jungle.