Lies by Michael Grant

My friends, I have come here to tell you about a thrilling book called Lies by Michael Grant. It is about a small southern California surfer town named Perdido Beach. In Perdido Beach, kids are stuck inside the FAYZ (Fallout Alley Youth Zone), where all the people above the age of 15 just disappeared. Some kids and animals have gotten odd mutations. The kids have been in the FAYZ for seven months and food, gasoline, and morals are running low. Everything, except weirdness. People are coming back from the grave, the Prophetess is telling people that you can leave the FAYZ by death, and people are turning into cannibals. The Human Crew are a bunch of kids who are the like the KKK to mutants. This 464 page book if full of many different characters, plot twists, and parts that will make you read till the wee hours of the morning. Will the Human Crew kill all the mutants? Will more people come back from the grave? Will people die just to get out of the FAYZ? What other mysteries does the FAYZ hold?

Young adults will fall in love with this fantasy/science fiction/suspense book. Stephen King said, “This is great fiction. I love these books.”

I love this book because there is a lot of action, a bundle of mutations, and it sparks so many questions it makes you want to keep reading. I think Michael Grant is like Stephen King because there is also a whole bunch of horror which Stephen King writes.

One of my favorite parts of this book is when there is a town council meeting and Howard, a drug and alcohol dealer, says “He wanted to go running home to Mommy, what can I say? Of course, it's hard for me to believe that anyone would choose to step out of the FAYZ. I mean, where else do you get to eat rats, use your backyard for a toilet, and live in fear for nineteen different kinds of scary?" This book was copyrighted in April 2010. The ALA Booklist said “Grant continues to hurtle through an endlessly fascinating (and increasingly grim) story line...” Michael Grant is a wonderful author. He has wrote more than 150 books. His most popular books are Gone, Hunger, and Plague, which are part of the Gone series. He has also wrote started to write the Magnificent 12 series, which consists of The Call and The Trap. None of these have one any awards.

All the characters come together to make a riveting story that will have you sitting on the edge of your seat. Will the Human Crew kill all the mutants? Will more people come back from the grave? Will people die just to get out of the FAYZ? What other mysteries does the FAYZ hold? Read this suspenseful novel to find out.

Recommended by Carl Schneider