Teens in a dead-end town risk their lives in a high-stakes fear game for money, escape, and a chance at something better.
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Teens in a dead-end town risk their lives in a high-stakes fear game for money, escape, and a chance at something better.
From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver comes an extraordinary novel of fear, friendship, courage, and hope that Kirkus Reviews says "will have readers up until the wee hours," School Library Journal raves is "fast-paced and captivating," and E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars, calls "a thrill a minute." Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a poor town of twelve thousand people in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do. Heather never th...
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Kissing and mild romance; crude sex references, nothing beyond kissing
Life-threatening stunts, beatings, guns, highway peril, and animal danger
Frequent strong profanity, including the f-word and other extreme language
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No religious themes present
No magic or witchcraft present
No occult or demonology content present
Recurring themes of poverty, class limits, and dead-end small-town life
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Teens beaten over the game; neglect, hardship, and abandoned animals
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