Hunger
a Gone novel
Readers rate it 3.9 (153 on Hardcover)
614 pages · Released 2009 · HarperTeen
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Hunger parent’s guide: what’s inside
LGBTQ+ themes
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Positive messages
Positive role models
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A note for parents
Hunger is the second book in the Gone series and escalates the survival stakes with darker themes, including starvation, interpersonal violence, and manipulation by a supernatural entity. While aimed at older middle-grade/YA readers, it contains sustained tension, some graphic moments, and mature themes of chaos and moral compromise that may be intense for younger readers. The series is known for its complex character dynamics and moral ambiguity rather than gratuitous content, making it suitable for mature preteens and up.
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From the publisher
It's been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known as the FAYZ.Three months since all the adults disappeared.Gone. Food ran out weeks ago. Everyone is starving, but no one wants to figure out a solution. And each day, more and more kids are evolving, developing supernatur... It's been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known as the FAYZ.Three months since all the adults disappeared.Gone. Food ran out weeks ago. Everyone is starving, but no one wants to figure out a solution. And each day, more and more kids are evolving, developing supernatural abilities that set them apart from the kids without powers.Tension rises and chaos is descending upon the town. It's the normal kids against the mutants. Each kid is out for himself, and even the good ones turn murderous.But a larger problem looms. The Darkness, a sinister creature that has lived buried deep in the hills, begins calling to some of the teens in the FAYZ. Calling to them, guiding them, manipulating them.The Darkness has awakened. And it is hungry.
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- Fiction
- Survival
- Supernatural
- Horror stories
- Good and evil
- Juvenile Fiction
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
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- New York Times bestseller
- Children's fiction
- Supernatural, fiction
- Good and evil, fiction
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ISBN 9780061449062 · HarperTeen