A Trip to Remember

Becoming Chloe by Catherine Ryan Hyde

***Spoilers Below***

One of my all-time favorite books is Becoming Chloe, by Catherine Ryan Hyde. I first read it a few years ago after borrowing it from a friend for the ride home from a school trip. What was supposed to be a borrowed book quickly became a you-aren't-getting-this-back-till-I-get-my-own-copy book. The book is short and simple, but it makes you stop and really look at and appreciate the world around you.

Superhuman

Blackout by Robison Wells

In Robison Wells’s Blackout, a virus is spreading across the United States, but for some reason this mysterious disease affects only teens. The symptoms? Strange superpowers that range from invisibility to super-strength to mind control. Add in some terrorist attacks, several destroyed monuments, and a paranoid military force, and you’ve got the perfect recipe for a post-apocalyptic story that keeps you turning those pages.

Laura and Alec are trained, lethal terrorists, while Jack and Aubrey were two average high school students. They come from extremely different backgrounds yet, as a result of this new virus, their lives become connected in a way that no one could have foreseen. Now they must work together to survive in this strange, new world.