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“Visionary. This book should be in every reader’shands.” –JACQUELINE WOODSON, National Book Award-winning author of BrownGirl Dreaming

Young heroes decide that they are not too young or too powerless to changetheir world in this gripping, futuristic young adult novel by the New YorkTimes bestselling author of the Printz Award–winning Monster.

It is 2035. Teens, armed only with their ideals, must wage war on the powerelite.

Dahlia is a Low Gater: a sheep in a storm, struggling to survive completelyon her own. The Gaters live in closed safe communities, protected from the Sturmers,mercenary thugs. And the C-8, a consortium of giant companies, control globalaccess to finance, media, food, water, and energy resources—and they are onlygetting bigger and even more cutthroat. Dahlia, a computer whiz, joins forceswith an ex-rocker, an ex-con, a chess prodigy, an ex-athlete, and a soldierwannabe. Their goal: to sabotage the C-8. But how will Sayeed, warlord andterrorist, fit into the equation?

AWARDS FOR WALTER DEAN MYERS:
New York Times Bestselling Author
3-Time National Book Award Finalist
Michael L. Printz Award
5 Coretta Scott King Awards
2 Newbery Honors
National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature (2012-2013)
Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement
Children’s Literature Legacy Award

Praise for ON A CLEAR DAY:

“Walter Dean Myers was such a visionary. On a Clear Day is at oncehistorical and futuristic, thoughtful and thought-provoking. It should be inevery reader’s hands. It’s a book for anyone who has ever given thought toour own future and the futures of those coming behind us. Stunning.”–
JACQUELINE WOODSON, National Book Award-winning author of Brown GirlDreaming

*”A clarion call from a beloved, much-missed master.” –
KirkusReviews, Starred

“In his last book, Myers has turned his thoughtful attention tomatters of pressing global importance and issued an implicit challenge to histeen readers to become involved and make a difference. It makes for astirring valedictory.” –Booklist

“Published posthumously, this is an angry story, demonstrating againMyers’s acute social conscience.” –Horn Book

“Worth serious YA consideration.” –The Bulletin of the Center forChildren’s Books