Ashes

Alex, a resourceful 17-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor; Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan; and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.

Ilsa J. Bick is a child psychiatrist, film scholar, former Air Force major, and now a full-time author. Her critically acclaimed, award-winning YA novels include "Draw the Dark," "Drowning Instinct," and "Ashes "(a 2011 VOYA Perfect Ten).Ilsa currently lives in rural Wisconsin, near a Hebrew cemetery. One thing she loves about the neighbors: they'revery quiet and only come around for sugar once in a blue moon.Visit her online at www.ilsajbick.com or adr3nalin3.blogspot.com and follow her on Facebook andTwitter @ilsajbick."