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Synopsis
Zach Croft wants to forget the Prescott colony ever happened. He wants to forget the crimson sand dunes, violent dust storms, and meteor impacts. He wants to forget the sight of his neighbors bleeding from their eyes as boils ravaged their bodies. He wants to forget the fact that his best friend was left to die. Most of all, he wants to forget that, without Prescott, humanity is doomed. But when a Prescott dropship plummets from the sky twenty-three years later, he has no choice but to remember. As Zach embarks on a life-or-death quest for answers about the dropship’s impossible return, he discovers something even more important: there is still hope for humanity’s survival. With conditions rapidly worsening on Earth, he is in a race against time to return to Mars, finish the work that Prescott started, and save the human race from extinction. To do so, he must face the truth about what really happened in Prescott—a truth that calls into question everything he thinks he knows about who he is, who he trusts, and what he has done.
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Is The Forgotten Colony (A Zach Croft Novel) appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
Contains moderate violence including descriptions of plague deaths with graphic symptoms (bleeding eyes, boils), mass casualty events, and traumatic survivor guilt. No sexual content or strong language.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include death, mass death, and grief (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teens will engage with the high-stakes survival mystery and the protagonist's desperate race to save humanity from extinction.