For fans of The Hunger Games, Battlestar Galactica, and Blade Runner comes the first book in the Partials Sequence, a fast-paced, action-packed, and riveting sci-fi teen series, by acclaimed author Dan Wells.
Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials--engineered organic beings identical to humans--has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island. But sixteen-year-old Kira is determined to find a solution. As she tries desperately to save what is left of her race, she discovers that that the survival of both humans and Partials rests in her attempts to answer questions about the war's origin that she never knew to ask.
Playing on our curiosity of and fascination with the complete collapse of civilization, Partials is, at its heart, a story of survival, one that explores the individual narratives and complex relationships of those left behind, both humans and Partials alike--and of the way in which the concept of what is right and wrong in this world is greatly dependent on one's own point of view.
Supports the Common Core State Standards
ISBN: | 9780062071057 |
Publication date: | 26th February 2013 |
Author: | Dan Wells |
Publisher: | Balzer & Bray/Harperteen an imprint of HarperCollins |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 528 pages |
Series: | Partials Sequence |
Genres: |
Science Fiction Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction Adventure Stories Children’s / Teenage fiction: Speculative, dystopian and utopian fiction Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy romance Romance / Relationship Stories School Stories Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Teenage pregnancy Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism |