';The authors do not hold back.' Booklist (starred review) ';The palpable desperation that pervades the plotfeels true, giving it a chilling air of inevitability.' Publishers Weekly (starred review) ';The Shustermans challenge readers.' School Library Journal (starred review) ';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 droughtor the Tap-Out, as everyone calls ithas 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 lifeand the life of her brotheris threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she's going to survive.
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.
