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Best of All Worlds

Kenneth Oppel

Ages 13–17

Readers rate it 4.0 (5 on Hardcover)

214 pages · Released Jun 3, 2025

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Best of All Worlds is a thought-provoking survival thriller that explores how human choices shape collective fate. While grounded in speculative sci-fi, the story contains moderate tension, psychological stress, and some violence associated with survival conflict. The character-driven narrative rewards empathy, cooperation, and moral questioning, making it best suited for mature teens who can engage with its thematic complexity.

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From award-winning author Kenneth Oppel a startling, can't-wait-to-talk-about-it-with-someone novel that defies genre to create a survival thriller unlike any you've read before. For fans of Leave the World Behind, A.S. King, M.T. Anderson, and Margaret Atwood. Xavier Oaks doesn't particularly want to go to the cabin w... From award-winning author Kenneth Oppel a startling, can't-wait-to-talk-about-it-with-someone novel that defies genre to create a survival thriller unlike any you've read before. For fans of Leave the World Behind, A.S. King, M.T. Anderson, and Margaret Atwood. Xavier Oaks doesn't particularly want to go to the cabin with his dad and his dad's pregnant new wife, Nia. But family obligations are family obligations, and it's only for a short time. So he leaves his mom, his brother, and his other friends behind for a week in the woods. Only... one morning he wakes up and the house isn’t where it was before. It's like it's been lifted and placed... somewhere else. When Xavier, his dad, and Nia go explore, they find they are inside a dome, trapped. And there's no one else around... Until, three years later, another family arrives. Is there any escape? Is there a reason they are stuck where they are? Different people have different answers -- and those different answers inexorably lead to tension, strife, and sacrifice. In this masterpiece, award-winning author Kenneth Oppel builds to a heart-stopping pitch in drawing a story that feels very much of our moment, where our very human choices collectively lead to humanity’s eventual fate.

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  • Young Adult Fiction
  • Strong Character Development
  • Diverse Characters
  • Plot driven
  • Loveable Characters
  • A mix driven
  • Unloveable Characters
  • Adventurous
  • mysterious
  • challenging
  • tense
  • Young Adult

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ISBN 9781546158219 · Scholastic Inc.

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