The Bank allows teenagers to rent out their bodies to those who want to be young again. But with the Body Bank comes a promise of much-needed cash, and with it, hope.
A war waged using the smallest of spores kills all of the middle aged population, leaving only the children and their grandparents behind. A world war is the catalyst that creates a gulf in the ages of its survivors. Callie and her little brother are on the run, living as squatters, fighting off unclaimed renegades who would kill for a cookie. Starters by Lissa Price is a fictional story that examines both the heavy cost of war, and our pursuit of youth at any cost. But she will stop at nothing to get it back. Callie and her little brother are on the run, living as squatters, fighting off unclaimed renegades who would kill for a cookie. She's happy to email you back if you reach out to her that way.Description for Starters Paperback. If you want to contact Lissa, please do it through her website, fb, twitter or tumblr and not here. The release dates for Enders will be announced by the publishers of each country, with some starting in May 2013. Lissa Price’s Starters is a young adult science fiction novel set in the near future after the Spore Wars, during which biological weapons were used against the United States and wiped out much of the unvaccinated middle-aged population. See the book trailer that played in front of the Hunger Games film in selected theaters in the US and abroad at her site. Audiobooks have been recorded in English and German.
In Germany, Starters launched a brand-new YA imprint of the established Piper Verlag publisher called IVI. Enjoy this sneak peek at STARTERS by Lissa Price - on sale March 13th wherever books are sold In the future, teens rent their bodies to seniors who want to. Starters was chosen for the IRA Reading List and is the only book nominated for both the Florida Teens Read List and the SSYRA Middle School List 2013-14. It won the Crimezone Award for Best YA Thriller and is one of the LAPL's and Chicago Public Library's Best Teen Books of 2012. It was awarded the its Eselsohr for Best YA Book in 2012, selected by a jury of teens in Germany, and was chosen as a top ten favorite book of 2012 by both French and German readers.
STARTERS was a Barnes & Noble pick of the month and one of only four debuts on the B&N Best Teen Books of 2012. Dean Koontz called this YA futuristic thriller “a smart, swift, inventive, altogether gripping story.” The LA Times said it is “Dystopian science-fiction at its best,” and “Readers who have been waiting for a worthy successor to ‘The Hunger Games’ will find it here.” Lissa Price’s debut novel STARTERS is an award-winning, international bestseller published in over thirty countries.
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