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Neal Shusterman

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Born January 1, 1962 (64 years old)
Brooklyn, United States
Also known as: Neal SHUSTERMAN, Scythe By Neal Shusterman
65 books
4.2 (223)
2,981 readers

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Neal Shusterman (born November 12, 1962) is an American writer of young adult fiction. He won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for his book Challenger Deep and his novel, Scythe, was a 2017 Michael L. Printz Honor book.

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Everwild

3.8 (4)
26

Nick, known as the dreaded "chocolate ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.

Antsy does time

3.0 (1)
6

Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the future.

Unwind (Unwind #1)

4.1 (39)
417

Unwind is a 2007 science fiction novel by young adult literature author Neal Shusterman. It takes place in the United States in the near future. After the Second Civil War or the Heartland War, was fought over abortion, a compromise was reached, allowing parents to sign an order for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 to be unwound—taken to "harvest camps" and having their body parts harvested for later use. The reasoning was that since 99.44% of the body had to be used, unwinds did not technically die because their individual body parts lived on. In addition to unwinding, parents who are unable to raise their children to age 13 for retroactive abortion have the option to "stork" their child by leaving it on another family's porch. If they don't get caught, the "storked" baby then becomes the other family's responsibility.

Darkness Creeping

0.0 (0)
21

Imagine being trapped forever in someone else's nightmare, with no means of escape. Or caught on one of the most terrifying roller coasters of all time, when suddenly the tracks ahead just disappear. Enter the world of Darkness Creeping, where hollow-eyed skulls arrive in the mail and nothing is as it seems. Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner and beloved author Neal Shusterman walks on the dark side with this classic collection of masterfully creepy stories so horrifying, you may have to read them twice to remind yourself they're not real.

Everlost

4.1 (7)
92

Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident... ...but their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to get either. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist. It's a magical, yet dangerous place where bands of lost children run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth. When they find Mary, the self-proclaimed queen of lost kids, Nick feels like he he's found a home, but Allie isn't satisfied spending eternity between worlds. Against all warnings, Allie begins learning the "Criminal Art" of haunting, and ventures into dangerous territory, where a monster called the McGill threatens all the souls of Everlost. In this imaginative novel, Neal Shusterman explores questions of life, death, and what just might lie in between. (Book Cover)

Red Rider's hood

0.0 (0)
6

After learning that there are werewolves in his city, a sixteen-year-old is even more surprised to discover the identities of the hunters who drove them out decades earlier, but he soon infiltrates the Wolves gang to help destroy them for good.

Bruiser

4.3 (3)
46

Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.

The Schwa was here

4.5 (2)
37

A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.

Full tilt

4.3 (8)
40

Blake has always been a kid that skirted adventure, but his brother has always had an adreniline high. When he receives an invitation to a mysterious, legandary carnival, Blake doesn't want to go, but he follows his brother along with two of his friends. All of the rides take a sinister, deadly turn. If you don't make it through all of the needed rides before sunrise, you are stuck in the ride forever. Follow Blake as he races through the rides. But, never forget the school bus, spinning round and round...

The Shadow Club rising

5.0 (1)
16

Even though he has disbanded his Shadow Club, formed to play mean-spirited tricks on his enemies, fourteen-year-old Jared finds himself suspected when a popular boy at school becomes the target of new pranks.

The shattered sky

0.0 (0)
4

Inhabitants of a planet taken over by a terrifying power flee their world, planning to conquer a new one, and only five powerful teenagers, possessed by shards of a shattered star, stand between them and Earth.

Mindbenders

0.0 (0)
1

Includes seven microcomputer programs to identify mind-control victims, master a life-or-death video game, and steer a mini-sub past hungry sharks.

Downsiders

4.0 (5)
28

When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon, who lives in the secret Downsider community that evolved in the subterranean passages of the subway built in New York in 1867, she and her new friend try to bridge the differences between their two cultures.

The Dark Side of Nowhere

4.5 (2)
26

Fourteen-year-old Jason faces an identity crisis after discovering that he is the son of aliens who stayed on earth following a botched invasion mission.