Hunger

fairly small disturbance in deep water, creating a ripple, a surge, can become a pretty impressive wave as it nears shore.”
    Sam noticed that someone had set up a tent on the beach. It looked forlorn.
    Out to sea, a boat putted by, its motor chugging in low gear.
    “Is that Dekka out on the boat?” Sam asked.
    They reached the tent. Lying in the sand there were two surfboards. Quinn’s. And Sam’s.
    “Your wet suit’s inside, brah,” Quinn said.
    Sam resisted. But not for long. After all, the council had authority now. And if they said he had to go surfing, well…
    Ten minutes later Sam was facedown on his board. His feet were already tingling from the cold water. The sun wasalready baking his back through the wet suit. The taste of salt was in his mouth.
    Out to sea, the boat had anchored. Dekka stood in the bow and raised her hands high. The water rose, rose, a big bulge of water temporarily released from the force of gravity.
    Dekka let it drop, and the ripple fanned out.
    “You even remember how to get up on that thing?” Quinn teased.
    The ripple had become a wave. A fast-moving wave. It would break big. Not north shore Oahu big, maybe, but big enough for a ride.
    Sam smiled at last. “You know, brah? I think it may just come back to me.”

    In a hole. Lightless. Soundless.
    Not even the sound of a beating heart.
    Nothing moved but the pale slug that shared this terrible place with her.
    Pray for me, Tanner, Brittney begged.
    Pray for me…

About the Author
    MICHAEL GRANT has spent much of his life on the move. Raised in a military family, he attended ten schools in five states, as well as three schools in France. Even as an adult he kept moving, and in fact he became a writer in part because it was one of the few jobs that wouldn’t tie him down. His fondest dream is to spend a year circumnavigating the globe and visiting every continent. Yes, even Antarctica. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Katherine Applegate, and their two children.
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PRAISE FOR GONE
by Michael Grant
    “This intense, marvelously plotted, paced, and characterized story will immediately garner comparisons to Lord of the Flies , or even the long-playing world shifts of Stephen King, with just a dash of X-Men for good measure. A potent mix of action and thoughtfulness—centered around good and evil, courage and cowardice—renders this a tour de force that will leave readers dazed, disturbed, and utterly breathless.”
    —ALA Booklist (starred review)
    “If Stephen King had written Lord of the Flies , it might have been a little like this novel.”
    — VOYA (starred review)
    “Gripping and gritty.”
    — School Library Journal
    “Part Kid Nation and part Left Behind , with just a dash of Cain and Abel, the story is most impressive for its extraordinarily skillful pacing, which leaves the reader constantly on the verge of another discovery (none of which disappoint).”
    — Kliatt

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    HUNGER: A GONE NOVEL . Copyright © 2009 by Michael Grant. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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