Wilder Girls

By Rory Power,

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

"The perfect kind of story for our current era."—Hypable

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From the author of Burn Our Bodies Down, a feminist Lord of the Flies about three best friends living in quarantine at their…

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In Wilder Girls, a bizarre, unprecedented plague called the Tox has infested an island home to an all-girls boarding school. The Tox causes those it infects to mutate in gruesome ways—growing gills, claws, an extra spine, et cetera. The schoolgirls and remaining sparse crew of staff members have developed a system of survival, but when one girl goes missing and her friend determines to find her, everything is thrown into chaos.

This book will grip you hard from the first sentence, sink its teeth into you, shake you around, then have you gasping for air on the floor…

From Katie's list on young adult for spooks and thrills.

The main reason I recommend this book is because, for me, it was like a modern-day version of The Boxcar Children but set in the time of quarantine. In Wilder Girls, when a virus called Tox begins to spread, The Raxter School for Girls located on an island is put under lockdown. But then all the teachers and staff, and yes, even students, begin catching Tox and dying. The ones who survive have gone through crazy body transformations like new spines sprouting from their backs and newly formed claws. Cut off from the rest of the world, the students…

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