
Wilder Girls
“Wilder Girls is so sharp and packs so much emotion in such wise ways. I’m convinced we’re about to witness the emergence of a major new literary star.”
Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author
A Barnes & Noble YA Book Club Pick
An Entertainment Weekly Pick of the Biggest and Best YA Books of the Summer
A BookRiot Pick of 8 Best Horror Books of 2019 to Freak You Out
An Amazon Best Book of the Month selection
A Bustle Pick Best Books to Get You through the Summer
A Lambda Literary Pick of the Month
A New York Times bestseller in Young Adult Hardcover Books
A Booklist Top 10 YA Mysteries for Adults
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year for Teens
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2019 for Young Adults
A 2019 Locus Recommendation
A Literary Hub Pick
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
An Electric Literature Pick of Books about Pandemics
A Publishers Weekly Pick of Essential Pandemic Reads
Finalist for the Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best YA Novel
Finalist for the This Is Horror Award
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
A feminist Lord of the Flies about three best friends living in quarantine at their island boarding school and the lengths they go to uncover the truth of their confinement when one disappears, this fresh new debut is a mind-bending novel unlike anything you've read before.
It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine, since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her.
It started slow. First the teachers died, one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.
But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there's more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.
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