* 'No one does doom like Neal Shusterman. With strong characterizations, a timely topic, and decisions to debate at every turn, this is a prime candidate for YA book clubs.- 'BCCB' 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.ĭry could play out tomorrow morning. Suddenly, Alyssa's quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water.

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. The drought-or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it-has been going on for a while now. 'No one does doom like Neal Shusterman.' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 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 Shustermans challenge readers.' - School Library Journal (starred review) 'The palpable desperation that pervades the plot.feels true, giving it a chilling air of inevitability.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

About the Book A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.īook Synopsis 'The authors do not hold back.' - Booklist (starred review)

Dry by neal shusterman