Wilder Girls
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Chapter Book · Ages 14–+ · 2019 · Est. 7.5 hour read

Wilder Girls

By Rory Power

In quarantine, a girl defies danger to uncover the truth behind her friend's disappearance.

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357 pages· 78,571 words· Est. 7.5 hour read
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At Raxter School for Girls, a mysterious illness called the Tox has left students isolated and transformed. When her friend Byatt vanishes, Hetty must confront the perilous world beyond their quarantine. As she ventures into the wild, she discovers secrets that challenge everything she knows about their confinement. Will Hetty uncover the truth, or will the island's dangers consume her? In this gripping tale of survival and friendship, the stakes are life and death, and the answers lie beyond the fence.

From the publisher

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!”The perfect kind of story for our current era.”–Hypable Featured in Vulture’s “11 Books to Read If You Already Miss Yellowjackets”!From the author of Burn Our Bodies Down, 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 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. And don’t miss Rory Power’s second novel, Burn Our Bodies Down! Praise for Wilder Girls 4 STARRED REVIEWS! “Take Annihilation, add a dash of Contagion, set it at an all-girls’ academy, and you’ll arrive at Rory Power’s occasionally shocking and always gripping Wilder Girls.”–Refinery29 “This thrilling saga…is sure to be one of the season’s most talked-about books, in any genre.”–EW “Fresh and horrible and beautiful….readers will be consumed and altered by Wilder Girls.”–NPR

At a glance
Format
Paperback
Pages
357
Words
78,571
Reading age
14–99+
Audience
Young Adult
Lexile
HL730L
Themes & topics
Books about friendshipBooks about boarding schoolsBooks about isolationBooks about pandemicsBooks about illness
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
4.8
F&P level
~Q
AR points
12
AR interest level
UG
AR quiz
504828
Publication
Published
June 2, 2020
First published
July 9, 2019
Publisher
Ember
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9780525645610

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