Sam is sitting in class when his freshmen history teacher Mr. Trentlake simply disappears before their eyes. Disbelief turns to confusion and rushes into fear as they soon realize that everyone over the age of 15 in their coastal town of Perdido Beach has vanished. Babies are left alone and uncared for, kids are crying in the streets for their parents. The only ones that can help them are the teens. They are left to care for the younger kids while they try to figure out what happened to the adults.
Fourteen year old Sam Temple is one of the teens living in the what they now call the FAYZ (Fall Out Youth Zone). Sam finds out he has special powers before the FAYZ. He discovers he can shoot beams of light out of his hands. He begins to see that in the FAYZ that there are some others that also have powers. If the powers are not useful they are described as one bar, or up to four or five bars if it is super powerful or maybe even dangerous.
Sam, who now takes charge in the FAYZ tries to figure out where the adults went and how he can get then back. Along with him are a few other teens, Quinn, Edildo, and Astrid. Along the way they face challenges involving some trouble with teens from a school called Coates Academy who try to take charge which only leads to disaster. But one of the most terrifying issues for Sam is his fifteen birthday is fast approaching....will he disappear too?
For me this book brought a whole new perspective on how children can survive without adults. When I first heard about this book, I thought about how with no parents or adults around, kids would be free to do whatever they want with no rules to stop them. Author Michael Grant brings on a whole new meaning to the situation. Kids can only try their best to stay alive and face the real dangers of bullying.
I give Gone a rating of 4 out of 4 cupcakes!
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