Loading...
Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear

By Robin Wasley
Edition

Hardcover edition

Publisher Simon & Schuster Imprint Simon & Schuster BFYR ISBN

9781665914604

Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear

load
In stock
SKU
9781665914604J

CONTENT NOTIFICATIONS

Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Underage Use,Language: Grotesque/Disturbing Imagery,Language: Strong Language,Violence: Gun Violence

A painfully average teen’s life is upended by a magical apocalypse in this darkly atmospheric and sweepingly romantic novel perfect for fans of The Raven Boys, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The Rest of Us Just Live Here.



High school is hard enough to survive without an apocalypse to navigate.



Sid Spencer has always been the most normal girl in her abnormal hometown, a tourist trap built over one of the fault lines that seal magic away from the world. Meanwhile, all Sid has to deal with is hair-ruining humidity, painful awkwardness, being one of four Asians in town, and her friends dumping her when they start dating each other—just days after one of the most humiliating romantic rejections faced by anyone, ever, in all of history.



Then someone kills one of the Guardians who protect the seal. The earth rips open and unleashes the magic trapped inside. Monsters crawl from the ground, no one can enter or leave, and the man behind it all is roaming the streets with a gang of violent vigilantes. Suddenly, Sid’s life becomes a lot less ordinary. When she finds out her missing brother is involved, she joins the remaining Guardians, desperate to find him and close the fault line for good.



Fighting through hordes of living corpses and uncontrollable growths of forest, Sid and a ragtag crew of would-be heroes are the only thing standing between their town and the end of the world as they know it. Between magic, murderers, and burgeoning crushes, Sid must survive being a perfectly normal girl caught in a perfectly abnormal apocalypse.



Only—how can someone so ordinary make it in such an extraordinary world?



More Information

Standard MARC Records

Download Standard MARC Records

Cover Art

Download Cover Art

Current Trends High Plus (Grades 9 & Up)

Current Trends High Plus

Current Trends High Plus (Grades 9 & Up)

For Grades 9 & Up

The 14 books in this category include highly popular genres such as fairytale retellings, cyber punk, historical fantasy, and dystopia.

14 books per Year
$302.40 per Year
Interests

Diversity, Fiction, High Interest/Reluctant Reader, Nonfiction, Thriller/Horror/Mystery, Novels

Like this book? Get more like this every month.
LEARN MORE