Westerfeld, Scott

"After the shocking conclusion to Swarm, the Zeroes are scattered, on the run, and desperate. They're up against challenges from within and from the world around them, and one thing is certain--an epic showdown is guaranteed"--Provided by publisher.

When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle.

When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle. Horizon is the debut middle grade novel for Scott Westerfeld.

Presents two novels in Scott Westerfeld's "Uglies" series, set in a futuristic society where, at age sixteen, everyone is given an operation that turns them into perfect supermodels, and one girl challenges the system.

"When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds. The other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle."--Provided by publisher.

Tally's perfect life as a Pretty is disrupted when she receives a letter from herself, written when she was an Ugly, reminding her of the promise she made to take a drug developed to cure the brain lesions that keep the Pretties shallow and happy--and when she takes the pills, she becomes a target of those determined to keep Pretty society carefree.

Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.

When a plane crash lands in the arctic, eight young survivors step from the wreckage expecting to see nothing but ice and snow, instead they find themselves lost in a strange jungle with no way to get home and little hope of rescue..