City of Savages

&;Red Dawn meets Escape from New York and The Hunger Games&; (Booklist) in an action-packed dystopian fantasy filled with &;prose [that] is gorgeous and brilliant&; and &;tells a satisfyingly dark tale through alternating the two sisters&; points of view&; (VOYA, starred review).

It&;s been nearly two decades since the Red Allies first attacked New York, and Manhattan is now a prisoner-of-war camp, ruled by Rolladin and her brutal, impulsive warlords. For Skyler Miller, Manhattan is a cage that keeps her from the world beyond the city&;s borders. But for Sky&;s younger sister, Phee, the POW camp is a dangerous playground of possibility, and the only home she&;d ever want.

When Sky and Phee discover their mom&;s hidden journal from the war&;s outbreak, they both realize there&;s more to Manhattan&;and their mother&;than either of them had ever imagined. And after a group of strangers arrives at the annual POW census, the girls begin to uncover the island&;s long-kept secrets. The strangers hail from England, a country supposedly destroyed by the Red Allies, and Rolladin&;s lies about Manhattan&;s captivity begin to unravel.

Hungry for the truth, the sisters set a series of events in motion that end in the death of one of Rolladin&;s guards. Now they&;re outlaws, forced to join the strange Englishmen on an escape mission through Manhattan. Their flight takes them into subways haunted by cannibals, into the arms of a sadistic cult in the city&;s Meatpacking District and, through the pages of their mom&;s old journal, into the island&;s dark and shocking past.