From award-winning YA writer Kenneth Oppel comes a survival thriller like no other. Perfect for fans of Michael Grant’s Gone and Lois Lowry’s The Giver, Best of All Worlds will grab you from the first page.
NO WARNING.
NO EXPLANATION.
NO ESCAPE.
On a weekend away with his dad and his heavily pregnant stepmother, Xavier Oak wakes up to discover his family’s cottage has seemingly been moved … overnight. Everything inside the house is the same, but everything outside is strange and new. And there’s not a person in sight.
Cut off from the world they knew and with no answers to be found, Xavier has nearly given up on ever getting back home when, out of nowhere, a second family arrive … bringing with them new politics, new theories and a dangerous new threat.
Are they trapped? Or are they saved? And, most importantly, does Xavier have what it takes to keep his family alive?
Xavier is on a weekend getaway to their country cottage with his Dad and his pregnant stepmother. But when they wake up, their cottage has seemingly been moved...
They soon discover that they are all enclosed in a dome with no outside world connections, and no other people. His little brother, Noah, is born and when things go wrong everything is suddenly fixed. But who has put them in the dome, and what are their motives?
Then another family appear, with far different political opinions. Although it is good to have other people around, it does cause tension. Xavier is particularly happy to have the company of the gorgeous Mackenzie, and Xavier dreams of a happy life together with her. But her father is quite a conspiracy theorist, and he is sure that this is a government plot with them as guinea pigs - and he is hellbent on escaping. Can they escape? Will they even survive?
With themes of survival, differing religious and political beliefs, human connection, and entrapment by an unseen enemy (or potential saviour), this is a terrific book that lends itself to big question discussions. I loved it from the outset and highly recommend it to all readers. It will best suit readers in the middle secondary years, and would make a great classroom read.