The 5th Wave
by Rick Yancey (Author)
The 1st Wave took out half a million people.
The 2nd Wave put that number to shame.
The 3rd Wave lasted a little longer, twelve weeks... four billion dead.
In the 4th Wave, you can't trust that people are still people.
And the 5th Wave? No one knows. But it's coming.
On a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs. Runs from the beings that only look human, who have scattered Earth's last survivors.
To stay alone is to stay alive, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan may be her only hope.
Now Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death.
Recognition: Georgia Peach Book Award Nominee for Honor book (2014); South Carolina Book Award for Young Adult (2016); Keystone to Reading Book Award Nominee for High School (2015); Evergreen Teen Book Award (2016); Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2014); Iowa High School Book Award (2016); The Inky Awards Nominee for Silver Inky (2013); Lincoln Award Nominee (2015); Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2013); Carnegie Medal Nominee (2014); Green Mountain Book Award (2015); Louisiana Teen Readers' Choice (2016); Gateway Readers Award (2016); Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award for High School (2016); Premio El Templo de las Mil Puertas Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera perteneciente a saga (2013)
The 2nd Wave put that number to shame.
The 3rd Wave lasted a little longer, twelve weeks... four billion dead.
In the 4th Wave, you can't trust that people are still people.
And the 5th Wave? No one knows. But it's coming.
On a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs. Runs from the beings that only look human, who have scattered Earth's last survivors.
To stay alone is to stay alive, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan may be her only hope.
Now Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death.
Recognition: Georgia Peach Book Award Nominee for Honor book (2014); South Carolina Book Award for Young Adult (2016); Keystone to Reading Book Award Nominee for High School (2015); Evergreen Teen Book Award (2016); Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2014); Iowa High School Book Award (2016); The Inky Awards Nominee for Silver Inky (2013); Lincoln Award Nominee (2015); Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2013); Carnegie Medal Nominee (2014); Green Mountain Book Award (2015); Louisiana Teen Readers' Choice (2016); Gateway Readers Award (2016); Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award for High School (2016); Premio El Templo de las Mil Puertas Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera perteneciente a saga (2013)
5th Wave Series—Summary and Book Order
Series: 5th WaveReading level: 14+
Books in series: 3
Read in order? Yes
Next release: Finished
Website: the5thwaveiscoming.com
Tags: science fiction action fantasy post-apocalyptic war
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