On the Edge of Gone
On the Edge of Gone A thrilling, thought-provoking novel from one of young-adult literature's boldest new talents.January 29, 2035. Denise and her mother and sister, Iris, have been assigned to a…
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On the Edge of Gone
A thrilling, thought-provoking novel from one of young-adult literature's boldest new talents.January 29, 2035. Denise and her mother and sister, Iris, have been assigned to a temporary shelter outside their hometown of Amsterdam to wait out the blast, but Iris is nowhere to be found, and at the rate Denise's drug-addicted mother is going, they'll never reach the shelter in time. That's the day the comet is scheduled to hit--the big one.
But everyone on the ship has been chosen because of their usefulness. A last-minute meeting leads them to something better than a temporary shelter--a generation ship, scheduled to leave Earth behind to colonize new worlds after the comet hits. Denise is autistic and fears that she'll never be allowed to stay.
Can she obtain a spot before the ship takes flight? What about her mother and sister? When the future of the human race is at stake, whose