When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one
teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this
harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal
Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman.
The drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it—has been going on
for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts:
don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take long showers.
Until the taps run dry.
Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of
desperation; neighbors and families turned against each other on the
hunt for water. And when her parents don’t return and her life—and the
life of her brother—is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices
if she’s going to survive.