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"A smart and wonderfully throwback adventure. Philip Pullman fans take notice. Don't miss." —Matthew Quick, New York Times Bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook and Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock. Nowhere to escape but below. Panic grips sixteen-year-old Mia Kish’s boarding school, Westbrook Academy, when a mysterious quarantine is suddenly enforced by a small army of soldiers who shoot first and ask questions later. The quarantine makes no sense—but then students and faculty inexplicably begin to break down. Their illness is an aggressive virus that ages its victims years in only a matter of hours. The end result? Death. No one can explain what’s going or has any idea what to do. Except Mia. Because she knows something that no one else does. And she knows the only place to escape to get answers...But what she finds may be even more horrific than anything that came before. * “The contemporary implications of the story ring unnervingly true. A fast-paced, thrilling adventure story that begs for a sequel.”—Booklist, starred review "Seth Fishman kills it in every possible way." —Margaret Stohl, New York Times Bestselling co-author of Beautiful Creatures and Icons. "A crackling thriller that keeps you turning the pages until the very end." —Jennifer Smith, author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.
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Mia Kish held the attention of the country when she got stuck in a well when she was four years old. Everybody knows about Baby Mia. Now, at age sixteen, Mia is a scholarship student at the elite Westbrook Academy. She???s one of the world???s best teenage swimmers, which is why she???s hated by some of her peers. When there???s a deadly virus outbreak at Westbrook and the teachers and students start rapidly aging, it???s Mia who may be able to protect her classmates. First they have to get past the quarantine guards to escape the school. Then they have to trek through a harsh winter landscape to get to the cave where Mia???s father works. Mia doesn???t know exactly what her father does at the cave, but she thinks he???s the only person who can save their town from the virus.
Although Seth Fishman???s The Well???s End contains many of the YA tropes that I???ve come to despise, I have to admit that... Read More: http://www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/the-wells-end/