A novel with short stories from the universe, UnBound, was released in 2015.Īn novella, called UnStrung has also been released as an e-book. The conclusion to the series, UnDivided, was released in 2014. A third novel, UnSouled, was released in 2013. If they can survive until their eighteenth birthday, they can't be harmed - but when every piece of them, from their hands to their hearts, are wanted by a world gone mad, eighteen seems far, far away.Ī sequel, called UnWholly, was released on August 28, 2012. Brought together by chance, and kept together by desperation, these three unlikely companions make a harrowing cross-country journey, knowing their lives hang in the balance. Lev is a 'tithe' -the 10th child of a rich, religious family who gives 10 percent of everything.

Risa has been consigned to unwinding because, at a State Home, or StaHo, her piano skills were not good enough and they needed to cut costs. His parents find him and he escapes the 'juvie cops', or police who specialize in catching runaway 'unwinds,' and runs into Risa and Lev.

He decides to run away and hitches a ride with a truck driver. Connor, a troublemaker from Akron, Ohio, is going to be unwound. The government compromised by making it illegal to abort a baby, but children ages 13-18 can be 'unwound', where all their body parts are donated to other people. A long time before the book started, there was a war called the Heartland War between the pro-life and pro-choice sides.

Challenger deep by neal shusterman