Jeff Hirsch. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-545-29014-2
Although it relies on some increasingly common dystopian tropes, Hirsch's debut novel is an impressive story with strong characters. A generation after China released a weaponized plague on the U.S., the nation is in ruins, and 15-year-old Stephen...
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Jeff Hirsch. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-545-29018-0
Hirsch's brisk, concept-driven second novel (after The Eleventh Plague) features a dystopian future world divided into two realms. After a mysterious "Rift" event, half of Earth appears to have turned into a wasteland; meanwhile, science has...
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Jeff Hirsch. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-545-51223-7
Hirsch returns to the post-apocalyptic well of his first two books, The Eleventh Plague and Magisterium, in this bleak and somewhat familiar novel. The archetype at play is a military-religious one: a man named Nathan Hill has founded his own church
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Jeff Hirsch. Clarion, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-544-39099-7
In this fast-paced novel, Hirsch (The Darkest Path) has created a terrifying reality that explores identity, memory, morality, and what it means to be a family. When a flu-like virus hits Black River Falls, causing those infected to lose their...
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Jeff Hirsch. Clarion, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-544-99916-9
It’s the end of the world but no one feels fine in this apocalyptic drama, set in upstate New York, 2049, which explores the everyday realities of small-town life during the collapse of civilization. As high school senior Lucy and her friends plan a
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Jeff Hirsch, read by Dan Bittner. Scholastic Audio Books, unabridged, six CDs, 7 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-0-545-35396-0
Fifteen-year-old Stephen Quinn and his father travel the desolate, depopulated, and despoiled landscape of what was once the United States. Ravaged by war and an enhanced form of influenza—labeled the Eleventh Plague—two-thirds of the populace are...
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