The Young World

A new YA sci-fi trilogy from writer and director Chris Weitz.

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The Young World by Chris Weitz

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The Young World by Chris Weitz

WHO’S IT FOR: For the snarky teen in your life (or in you) who likes unexpected adventure, brave new worlds and endings they can’t stop thinking about.

WHO’S IT BY: Oh, you know, Chris Weitz, director of some small-time, little-known films you may have heard of: Twilight: New Moon, About a Boy, The Golden Compass, and American Pie.

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Adults are extinct and teenagers are an endangered species who inherited the earth. On the dilapidated island Manhattan, an evil genius, a slightly unhinged girl-power chick, a gay Christian adrenaline junky, a tiny but deadly girl and a nerd philosopher king venture in search of a cure for the “Sickness”. 

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"It's getting harder and harder to find food. On the plus side, you can still find craploads of themed iPhone covers."

–page 141, The Young World

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Road trips through post-apocalyptic New York City rarely go as planned. But no one said saving humankind from a mysterious illness was going to be easy. Welcome to The Young World – a new YA sci-fi trilogy from Oscar-nominated writer/director Chris Weitz.

Follow here for more adventures in #TheYoungWorld. Start reading here.

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Everyone changes in high school – though not quite as drastically as you might if a mysterious illness were to kill all living adults, leaving teenagers to rule the island of Manhattan. Welcome to The Young World – a new YA sci-fi trilogy from Oscar-nominated writer/director Chris Weitz.

Follow here for more adventures in #TheYoungWorld. Start reading here.

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"Typical Jefferson. While he’s working on restoring civilization, everybody else is figuring out new ways to cook rat."

–page 141, The Young World

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"The age thing is not some rule. Some people knock off around eighteen, some earlier, some later. But... when you reach maturity, the Sickness kicks in. Physical maturity, I mean. If you didn't die until you reached emotional maturity, dudes would be living forever."

–page 33, The Young World

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"The walls are tagged with gallows humor."

–page 4, Chris Weitz's The Young World

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"I walk past the kids in the firing line. And I notice that even when the world has gone to hell, people still have a sense of fashion."

–page 5, The Young World

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"It's another gorgeous spring day after the fall of civilization." 

–page 1, The Young World

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Chris Weitz's The Young World is this summer's must-read. Preview it now here and post your review using #TheYoungWorld!

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In the old world it was a list exclusive to pandas, tigers, and polar bears (oh, my). In The Young World human adults are extinct, and young adults have an expiration date. Welcome to the endangered species list, mankind.

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"Yeah, so, Donna's problem, nutritionally speaking, is that protein is hard to find. Carbs? Sure. You'd be pretty shocked how long that sh*tty nonorganic bread, that wonder-of-wonders bread, keeps before blue fuzz starts growing on it. Sometimes the rats get to it first. So what do we eat? The rats. Which, kind of, means we’re eating the bread anyway, right? I mean, the rats ate the bread; we ate them."

–page 15, The Young World

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