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Dry, Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

eng

no index present

790L, lexileSentence: 4 (hard), Word frequency: 5 (very hard), Lexile

novels

Dry

1022615206

Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Accelerated Reader, UG, 5.5, 16.0.

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. The drought--or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it--has been going on for a while now. 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. Until the taps run dry. Suddenly, Alyssa's quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. 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

adolescent