![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Plague by Michael Grant is available for checkout from the Mission Viejo Library. Audio CD - Unabridged ISBN-13 : 9781665293228 ISBN-10 : 1665293225 Publisher : Tantor Audio Publish Date : January 2017 Reading Level : Ages 12-17. Tensions are high as the fight for survival sweeps up some new faces and old, exposing new problems, and new solutions. A plague is wiping out the population of Perdido Beach, a sickness that nothing can heal. When incubation is complete, they burst from inside you and eat your remains.Īs if this and Drake weren’t bad enough, kids are coughing up a lung… literally. They slowly begin to grow and emerge from your body, secreting a numbing liquid as they do so. They start off as invisible threats, but the true horror begins when you see a small pair of mandibles poking through the inside of your skin. ![]() In this fourth installment of the Gone series, Drake has returned, bringing with him a terrifying concept of the perfect killing machine: beetles. Welcome to Michael Grant’s FAYZ, or Fallout Alley Youth Zone.Įvery human above the age of 15 have disappeared, leaving the kids in a world that’s theirs for the taking. Across town, Little Pete lies unconscious, struck down by the mysterious illness. A world surrounded by an impassable barrier, stopping anyone from entering… or getting out. Disease is spreading through the streets of Perdido Beach: a devastating, hacking cough that makes the sufferers choke their guts up literally. A world where animals are starting to mutate horribly. Imagine a world in which everyday people gain supernatural abilities. ![]()
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