Any sign of life

Title:

Any sign of life

Author:

Summary:

Paige Miller is determined to take her basketball team to the state championship, maybe even beyond. But as March Madness heats up, Paige falls deathly ill. Days later, she wakes up attached to an IV and learns that the whole world has perished. Everyone she loves, and all of her dreams for the future—they’re gone. But Paige is a warrior. She pushes through her fear and her grief and gets through each day scrounging for food, for shelter, for safety. As she struggles with her new reality, Paige learns that the apocalypse did not happen by accident. And that there are worse things than being alone.

Audience:

Ages 13 up. Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Grades 10-12. Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

377 pages ; 22 cm

Genre:

Science fiction.

Apocalyptic fiction.

Subject Term:

Survival -- Fiction.

Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction.

Human-alien encounters -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Ohio -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,

Publication Date:

2021

ISBN:

9780062691934

Publication Information:

New York : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]

Call Number:

YA CARSON

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"Any Sign of Life is a heartbreaking story filled with courage, friendship, and personality. Paige Miller is the perfect team-up buddy in an apocalypse. I was with her when she lost everything, and stood right next to her when she took it all back."--Wesley Chu, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the War Arts Saga

"A timely update to classic postapocalyptic YA."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A smart, suspenseful thriller. Totally un-put-down-able."--Kirkus Reviews

When a teenage girl thinks she may be the only person left alive in her town--maybe in the whole world--she must rely on hope, trust, and her own resilience. A harrowing and pulse-pounding survival story from New York Times-bestselling author Rae Carson. Any Sign of Life is a must-have for readers of Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave and Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman's Dry.

But Paige is a warrior. She pushes through her fear and her grief and gets through each day scrounging for food, for shelter, for safety. As she struggles with her new reality, Paige learns that the apocalypse did not happen by accident. And that there are worse things than being alone.

New York Times-bestselling author Rae Carson tells a contemporary and all-too-realistic story about surviving against the odds in this near-future thriller. Any Sign of Life will electrify fans of Rory Power's Wilder Girls and Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven.

Reviews (2)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 8 Up--An apocalyptic first contact novel in the vein of The 5th Wave and The Walking Dead. Paige Miller goes to bed with flulike symptoms and wakes up six days later, the only one in her house still alive. One moment Paige's highest priorities are basketball and state titles, the next they're finding anyone still alive and getting some answers. Paige collects an eclectic and diverse group of survivors as she dodges drones and tries to figure out what happened. The flu that destroyed Earth was a biological weapon, and the enemy is alien. Carson has crafted an apocalypse so real it could happen tomorrow; references to COVID-19 and politics ground the story in a contemporary atmosphere without strictly dating the novel. With high stakes and a fast-paced survival plot line, sharp prose carries the novel when the characters feel distant and the revelations come too fast. The author attempts, with varying success, to work in issues of race and class. Paige is white, and the side characters include Black, Latinx, and asexual identities on the page. VERDICT Vivid and well-crafted, this pandemic-adjacent survival story may hit a little close too home this year. Carson's relentlessly action-packed dystopian is a secondary purchase.--Emmy Neal, Lake Forest Lib., IL

Publisher's Weekly Review

The mechanics of coping bloom into much more in this deeply humanizing near-future survival thriller from Carson (The Empire of Dreams). White Columbus, Ohio, basketball player Paige Miller, 17, barely remembers getting sick. But when she wakes up emaciated from a six-day flu, she finds a grim scene: carrion birds, power outages, and her family dead in a world gone silent--except for one radio signal out of Sandusky. Forced onto the road with her adopted dog to find signs of life, she joins a Black premed hopeful and collegiate quarterback as well as a pale-skinned, hypervigilant asexual street artist against an increasingly alien threat: eyeless, glowing creatures with a quicksilver flying craft. As her ragged team follows the radio broadcast across Ohio, they discover a desperate attempt to survive the impending invasion--and a slim chance to fight back. Carson tempers a grim, death-laced future with pragmatism, an athlete's awareness of bodily limits, and an uplifting belief in people's capacity for good. Fans of Megan Crewe and Susan Beth Pfeffer will relish this timely update to classic postapocalyptic YA. Ages 13--up. Agent: Holly Root, Waxman Leavell. (Oct.)