It is the year 2007.The world has been wiped out by a deadly plague that killed all the adults. Without them, children perished of hunger and disease. No more people, no more electricity, no more civilization -- just mildewed houses, overgrown yards, and abandoned cars. Yet on a highway strip outside a small town in Florida, the words We're Still Here are painted in letters big enough to be seen from an airplane -- although no planes ever cross the...
This is a wonderful book. I had a hard time getting into it, because of the names. But by chapter two, it started getting exciting and the names really suited the childrens personalities. It is an apacolypse, adventure, with lots of humor. The details of the children and the life they live is so well described, I can see how scary it could be for them. This is an edge of your seat story. The ending left me wanting to keep...
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In the first year of Fire-Us, there was a disease that started and was said to have killed all of the grown ups on the planet. Now for the last five years Mommy, Teacher, Hunter, Action Figure, Baby, and Teddy Bear have been living together in the cold dark town. The reason they are called these odd names is because they don't remember their names from being enclosed for so long. When a man named Angerman comes to their town,...
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This is a sci-fi novel about the end of the world. Every single adult on the planet died. THere are a couple of kids living in a house alone. So begins the Fire-Us trilogy, fascinating, scary, and intriguing. The story is really interesting - I mean slap in your face, give-me-more, I LOVE THIS intersting. A couple of the images were really disturbing, though, like the fact that Hunter had to move the skeletons out of...
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I loved this book so much! I love reading science fiction books. The only thing that bothered me was their names, but after reading it I got used to it and started to really enjoy the series. You should try to read it!
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First of all, bits of this book might be a bit too disturbing for younger children. The themes are powerful and alarming. At first I thought it was a book written by creepy religious fanatics or something. Boy was I wrong. I got stuck into the story of these children with their allegorical names. It's filled with powerful scenes. Angerman has got to be the best catalyst character ever who takes these children that would have...
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