And when her parents don’t return and her life-and the life of her brother-is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she’s going to survive. Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take long showers. The drought-or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it-has been going on for a while now.

When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman. A group of teenage friends are forced to band together when chaos breaks out in their community, and what ensues is a frightening survival scenario.⚠️ This book will unfortunately be removed from the service on the 14th of May. Above our world is a toxic wonderland where. Stores of bottled water last only a matter of days, and the government can’t mobilize fast enough to provide water for its 23 million citizens. A chilling take on the opioid epidemic by the New York Times bestselling Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman. The book begins when a California state sponsored deal for diverted water falls through and the water mains in Southern California run completely dry as a crippling drought hits.

Written by National Book award winning bestselling author Neal Shusterman (whose Challenger Deep is set at Chernin and Scythe at Universal) and his son Jarrod, the novel revolves around a topical premise. One of the comments that Ive often gotten from parents who say, my son read Scythe, or my daughter read, Unwind, and made me read it, because they wanted. Alyssa and her 10-year-old brother Garrett become separated from their parents, and join up with prepper neighbor, Kelton, and a couple of other teens in a quest to find water.

Temple Hill’s Isaac Klausner and Marty Bowen will produce, along with Trevor Engelson. Dry by Neal Shusterman delves deep into water scarcity when the southwestern United States experiences the Tap-Out-no water.

Six bidders chased this book and sources said the deal was worth six against seven figures, plus a six figure fee for the authors to write the script. Award-winning author Neal Shusterman grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he began writing at an early age. It ended when Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to Dry, the thriller novel by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman. Jarrod Shusterman is the author of the short story Undevoured in the bestselling Unwind Dystology. EXCLUSIVE: The dry spell for material ended today with the first multi-studio auction for a hot book this year.

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