face and long white hair that draped over the shoulders of her down vest. She couldn’t have been older than thirteen.
“Hi,” she said sweetly.
Sam slowly snuck the knife down the back of his pants.
“Hi,” Sam said.
“You want some food?” the girl asked. She pulled a granola bar out of her pocket.
His pulse quickened at the sight of the small pistol clutched in her other hand. He smiled.
“Actually, uh… you got any more of those guns?”
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First published by Egmont USA, 2012
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Copyright © Lex Thomas, 2012
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Thomas, Lex.
Quarantine / Lex Thomas.
p. cm.
Summary: When a virus deadly to adults infects their high school, brothers David and Will and the other students soon break into gangs that fight each other for survival and the hope of escaping their quarantine.
ISBN 978-1-60684-329-1 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-60684-330-7 (e-book)
[1. Survival—Fiction. 2. Gangs—Fiction. 3. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 4. Virus diseases—Fiction. 5. High schools—Fiction. 6. Schools—Fiction. 7. Science fiction.] 1. Title.
PZ7.T366998Qud 2012
[Fic]—dc23
2011059460
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