In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.

In a community planned by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, Simmea is one of ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from throughout history who must make their way in a community shared by Sokrates and the human manifestation of Apollo.

Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts discovers in Halliday's vaults a technological advancement that will change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wonderous, and addictive. With it comes a new riddle, a new quest, and a dangerous new rival.

The author recalls her childhood spent growing up in a secluded utopian meditation community in Iowa, and how, as a skeptical teenager, she questioned what she was taught, experimented with drugs and alcohol, and eventually left to live with her father.

Forced to flee a small North Carolina town when the neighbors suspect they are aliens, sixth-grader Meggie Blue and her family leave Earth and arrive in Fashion City, where individuality is punished and the greatest crime is being "grossly unique." Although Meggie Blue seems to be an average sixth-grader she is abnormally frightened when residents of her small, North Carolina town become fixated on aliens and soon she and her family are forced to...