Young heroes decide that they are not too young or too powerless to change their world in this gripping futuristic young adult novel by the New York Times bestselling author of the Printz Award-winning Monster.
It is 2035. Teens armed only with their ideals must wage war on the power elite.
Dahlia is a Low Gater: a sheep in a storm struggling to survive completely on her own. The Gaters live in closed safe communities protected from the Sturmers mercenary thugs. And the C-8 a consortium of giant companies control global access to finance media food water and energy resources-and they are only getting bigger and even more cutthroat. Dahlia a computer whiz joins forces with an ex-rocker an ex-con a chess prodigy an ex-athlete and a soldier wannabe. Their goal: to sabotage the C-8. But how will Sayeed warlord and terrorist fit into the equation?