Rick Yancey’s first young adult novel is a true sci-fi read. Aliens have decimated earth with multiple attacks. Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie’s only hope for rescuing her brother, between life and death.
Short-listed for the Carnegie medal and aimed at the older teen, this World War II thriller is a story of courage and bravery centring on the friendship of two women, one a pilot and one a special operations operative.
A vital mission goes wrong and one of the friends has to bail out of a faulty plane over France. She becomes a prisoner of war and starts writing an account for her captors. If you liked Book Thief, you will enjoy this!
