Best Selling Books by Scott Westerfeld

“This whole game is just designed to make us hate ourselves.”—Shay Uglies told Tally Youngblood’s version of life in Uglyville and the budding rebellion against the Specials. Now comes an exciting graphic novel revealing new adventures in the Uglies world—as seen through the eyes of Shay, Tally’s rebellious best friend who’s not afraid to break the rules, no matter the cost. A few months shy of her sixteenth birthday, Shay eagerly awaits her turn to become a Pretty—a rite-of-passage operation called “the Surge” that transforms ordinary Uglies into paragons of beauty. Yet after befriending the Crims, a group of fellow teens who refuse to take anything in society at face value, Shay starts to question the whole concept. And as the Crims explore beyond the monitored borders of Uglyville into the forbidden, ungoverned wild, Shay must choose between the perks of being Pretty and the rewards of being real.

SWASHBUCKLING FANTASY features excerpts from 10 series by bestselling and critically acclaimed authors such as Margaret Petersen Haddix, author of the Shadow Children series, D.J. MacHale, author of the Pendragon series, Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies and Holly Black, author of Valiant. This online sampler also highlights six debut series from rising stars in fantasy, including Kai Meyer, Jane Johnson and Obert Skye. This fantasy sampler is the perfect way to introduce middle grade through teen readers to alternate worlds, distant pasts and fantastic creatures! Don''t miss out on any of our amazing fantasy titles! Please visit www.SimonSaysKids.com or www.SimonSaysTEEN.com for more information.

This is the second book in New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld’s Midnighters series. As the Midnighters search for the truth about the secret hour, they uncover terrifying mysteries woven into the very fabric of Bixby’s history, and a conspiracy that touches the world of daylight. This time Jessica Day is not the only Midnighter in mortal danger, and if the group can’t find a way to come together, they could lose one of their own . . . forever. Touching Darkness is the second book in the Midnighters trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Uglies series.

A secret mission. False identities. Surveillance dust. High stakes. The heart-stopping third book in the New York Times bestselling Impostors series.

THE WORLD OF UGLIES, SET IN OUR NOT-SO-DISTANT FUTURE,is a complex place filled with bubbly technology and lingo, yet bogus rules about status and appearance. That''s why a guide to the world of uglies has been requisitioned from the hole in the wall. Inside you''ll find: A rundown on all the cliques, from Crims and Cutters to tech-heads and surge-monkeys The complete history, starting with the destruction of the oil bug to the launch of Extras in space How all those awesome gadgets came to be: hoverboards, eyescreens, skintennas, sneak suits... PLUS an exclusive look at Scott Westerfeld''s first draft of Extras -- starring Hiro, not Aya. And so much more, it''s mind-wrecking.

Sure, love is hell. But it,s totally worth it. In these supernatural stories by five of today''s hottest writers—Melissa Marr (Wicked Lovely), Scott Westerfeld (Specials), Justine Larbalestier (Magic or Madness), Gabrielle Zevin (Elsewhere), and Laurie Faria Stolarz (Blue is for Nightmares)—love may be twisted and turned around, but it''s more potent than ever on its quest to conquer all. From two students who let the power of attraction guide them to break the hard-and-fast rules of their world to the girl who falls hard for a good-looking ghost with a score to settle, the clever, quirky characters in this exciting collection will break your heart, then leave you believing in love more than ever.

The danger rises and the deception grows in the heart-stopping third book in the New York Times bestselling Impostors series! Frey''s return to the city of her birth isn''t going to be an easy one. She and her love Col must surge on new faces and bodies in order to infiltrate Shreve by dropping from the sky and landing undetected. Frey''s sister Rafi -- no longer a twin in features, but still a twin by birth -- is the wild card. Are the sisters on the same side . . . or are they playing to their own agendas? If their father is deposed from Shreve, who will take control? And what other forces may be waiting in the wings? Mirror''s Edge is another brilliant blockbuster from one of the greatest speculative writers YA fiction has ever seen, set within the world of Uglies . . . and about to converge with Uglies in a spectacular way.

Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Strange manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. Addison got close enough to the Spill Zone to touch it, literally. She survived the encounter, but came back changed. It turns out she''s not alone. North Korea has its own Spill Zone, and a young man named Don Jae is the only one who made it out alive. Alive, but changed. Now Addison, Don Jae, and, curiously, a rag doll named Vespertine, share an unholy bond and uncanny powers. From Scott Westerfeld, the inspired imagination behind the New York Times bestsellers Uglies and Leviathan, comes The Broken Vow, the second volume of our highly anticipated new graphic novel series.

This discounted ebundle of the Succession Duology includes: The Risen Empire and The Killing of Worlds From Scott Westerfeld, the acclaimed author of the Leviathan trilogy and the Uglies series comes a sweeping space opera. A warrior and a pacifist senator hold the fate of the empire in their hands. They stand at a war between an immortal god-like emperor and relentless cybernetic humans. Only one can prevail. The Risen EmpireCaptain Laurent Zai and his pacifist lover Senator Nara Oxham, separated by lightyears, hold the fate of the empire in their hands. They serve an Emperor who has reigned with his sister the Child Empress for sixteen hundred years as living gods. But even gods might bow to the fanaticism of the Rix, machine-augmented humans, who long for the cybernetic rule of a vast AI. The Killing of Worlds Brilliant tactician Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx faces a suicide mission: stopping the next thrust of the Rix invasion with just his own ship. While ship-to-ship combat rages among the stars, Zai''s lover, Senator Nara Oxham, is caught in a deadly political fencing match with the Emperor himself. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The first two novels of Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend—now available in one edition. Tally can’t wait to turn sixteen. Only then will she be able to have an operation to turn her from a repellant ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and live in New Pretty Town—a high-tech paradise where her only job will be to have fun. But when Tally finally becomes pretty, everything isn’t as perfect as it seems. Underneath all the beauty and luxury is a nagging sense that something is wrong. Very wrong. Searching for the truth, Tally discovers a whole new side of the pretty world—and it isn’t very pretty. Now Tally has a choice to make: fight to forget what she knows or fight for her life.

This harrowing tale of supernatural suspense kicks off a new series from the visionary mind of #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld. When a plane crash-lands in the arctic, eight young survivors step from the wreckage expecting to see nothing but ice and snow. Instead they find themselves lost in a strange jungle with no way to get home and little hope of rescue. Food is running out. Water is scarce. And the jungle is full of threats unlike anything the survivors have ever seen before--from razor-beaked shredder birds to carnivorous vines and much, much worse. With danger at every turn, these eight kids must learn to work together to survive. But cliques and rivalries threaten to tear them apart. And not everyone will make it out of the jungle alive.

As they celebrate the opening of their underground nightclub, the Zeroes, six teenagers with unique abilities, learn about the sinister power of Swarm, who uses a crowd''s rage to kill--and who loves killing Zeroes.

Vi siete mai chiesti chi è stato il primo ad attaccare una grossa catena a un portafogli, o a indossare pantaloni di due taglie più grandi? O chi è stato il primo a infilarsi un cappello da baseball al contrario? Ora lo sapete. Si chiamano gli "Innovatori" e sono il vertice, la cuspide della piramide della moda. Il diciassettenne Hunter Braque è un Trendsetter, secondo livello della piramide. Il suo lavoro? Trovare quanto di più smagliante e cool c''è sul mercato. Il suo modus operandi? Osservare, ma non intervenire mai. Un giorno, tuttavia, qualcosa accade. Hunter e Jen, la ragazza di cui è pazzamente innamorato, trovano il cellulare del boss del ragazzo abbandonato in un edificio: la donna, misteriosamente, sembra svanita nel nulla. In una folle corsa contro il tempo, i protagonisti si troveranno presto catturati in una ragnatela di intrighi: ma, se la cosa potrà consolarli, sarà una ragnatela di marca

The thrilling final book in the New York Times bestselling Impostors series.

As an ancient evil stirs beneath the streets of New York City, infecting rats and people like a plague, five quirky teens come together to form a "New Sound" band whose music seems to have paranormal power.

À l''aube de la Première Guerre mondiale. Deryn est écossaise et orpheline ; Alek est un jeune héritier qui fuit l''Empire austrohongrois. Elle s''habille en garçon et combat dans les forces aériennes darwinistes ; lui est poursuivi par le pouvoir clanker et cache ses origines. Alliés malgré eux, ils se retrouvent à bord de l''extraordinaire Léviathan.. Ils n''auront qu''une solution pour éviter la guerre : se faire confiance... et compter sur la créature la plus redoutable des darwinistes britanniques, le Béhémoth... I. LÉVIATHAN II. BÉHÉMOTH III. GOLIATH

Scott Westerfeld, autor da série Feios, retorna em mais uma aventura de tirar o fôlego. Darcy Patel escreveu seu primeiro livro e, não muito tempo depois, se mudou para Nova York, para realizar o sonho de viver de escrever. Lizzie se prepara para mais uma viagem de avião, até terroristas invadirem o aeroporto e começarem a atirar em todos. No fim, está tão convencida de pertencer ao mundo dos mortos que acaba atravessando a fronteira do além-mundo. Darcy criou Lizzie. A menina de Além-mundos é sua protagonista. Enquanto Lizzie se vê cada vez mais envolvida nos assuntos dos mortos e do submundo, Darcy luta para se manter no paraíso da Big Apple, e quanto mais Darcy aprende e amadurece, mais a história de Lizzie também cresce. Ou seria o contrário? Sempre atravessando as barreiras entremundos, as duas irão se redescobrir, se reescrever e explorar os infinitos mundos dentro de si mesmas.

La emocionante tercera parte de la serie Traición. LOS LIBROS EN LOS QUE SE BASA LA PELÍCULA DE NETFLIX: LOS FEOS Tally creía que solo eran un rumor, pero ahora es una de ellos... Ya hace mucho tiempo que Tally dejó de ser una imperfecta rebelde e indisciplinada. Por aquel entonces, ella aún creía que los especiales no eran más que un rumor siniestro y aterrador: de ellos se decía que eran veloces, atractivos y crueles como nadie. Irónicamente, el destino la ha llevado a convertirse en especial, y, tras someterse a la más sofisticada de las operaciones quirúrgicas, ha recibido una misión: acabar con la resistencia... ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The third installment of Scott Westerfeld''s New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series--a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend. Tally thought they were a rumor, but now she''s one of them. A Special. A super-amped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid. But maybe being perfectly programmed with strength and focus isn''t better than anything she''s ever known. Tally still has memories of something else. Still, it''s easy to tune that out--until she''s offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she''s programmed to complete. Either way, Tally''s world will never be the same.

Si te gustaron LOS JUEGOS DEL HAMBRE, no puedes perderte Traición, primera parte de una emocionante serie. Solo hay un camino: la rebelión. Como todos los chicos de su edad, Tally está impaciente por cumplir los 16 años, porque entonces las autoridades la someterán a una operación estética para convertirla en perfecta. Pero, justo antes de su cumpleaños, su mejor amiga, Shay, huye para unirse a la resistencia, un grupo de imperfectos que viven en una ciudad secreta. Entonces las autoridades le ofrecen a Tally la peor de las disyuntivas: o ir en busca de Shay y devolverla al mundo civilizado o permanecer imperfecta para siempre... Reseña: «Nunca me cansaré de recomendarla». Stephenie Meyer, autora de Crepúsculo

Un anno fa Cal Thompson frequentava il primo anno di college e della biologia, così come ai suoi amici, non gliene importava niente. Oggi, dopo aver trascorso una notte insieme a Morgan, una misteriosa ragazza incontrata in un bar, la biologia è diventata la sua unica via di salvezza. Perché Morgan gli ha trasmesso un parassita temibile: quello del vampirismo. Per fortuna, Cal risulta essere un portatore sano. Non si trasforma dunque in un cannibale spietato, ma si ritrova dotato di sensi acuiti, di una forza e una velocità sovrumane, e di una dote che gli sembra quasi uno scherzo del destino: una costante eccitazione sessuale. Un dramma per il ragazzo, che non può concedersi neppure un bacio se non vuole condannare chi gli sta accanto. Assoldato da un’antichissima organizzazione segreta che si occupa di tenere sotto controllo i pip, gli altri vampiri come lui “parassita-positivi”, a Cal viene affidato il compito di rintracciare le ragazze che suo malgrado ha già contagiato e di catturarle perché possano essere curate. Ma ne vuole sapere di più: deve scoprire ora chi è davvero Morgan, e qual è la reale natura della malattia che lo ha colpito. Inizia così un’indagine che lo condurrà per le vie e i sotterranei labirintici di New York: fino a quando non scoprirà di essere al centro di un’incredibile, atroce cospirazione. Dalla penna di Scott Westerfeld, lo scrittore che Stephenie Meyer, l’autrice della saga di Twilight, considera il suo maestro, una storia di vampiri come non ne avete mai lette prima.

No te pierdas Extras, el nuevo libro de la serie Traición. Si no eres popular... no existes. Tras el fin de la era de los perfectos, la sociedad está sumida en un renacimiento completo... en el que la popularidad manda. Ser famoso implica tener mejor casa, mejor ropa e incluso mejores amigos. En cambio, no serlo te convierte en invisible, en un perdedor, en un completo desconocido. En definitiva, en un extra. Aya Fuse lo es. Pero a sus quince años hay algo que tiene ya muy claro: por nada del mundo piensa resignarse al anonimato. Y, como Tally unos años atrás, Aya está dispuesta a todo para hacer realidad sus sueños... Reseña: «Nunca me cansaré de recomendarla.» Stephenie Meyer, autora de Crepúsculo Reseña: «Nunca me cansaré de recomendarla». Stephenie Meyer, autora de Crepúsculo

Scott Westerfeld''s bestselling Uglies series in a collectible paperback boxed-set!

Seuls survivants d''un crash aérien, un groupe d''adolescents se réveille au beau milieu d''une jungle à l''apparence surnaturelle. Etrange, ils pensaient survoler l''Arctique... Peu de nourriture, plus d''eau potable, les rescapés doivent assurer leur survie, mais aussi se défendre contre les menaces qui peuplent cet endroit inconnu. Entre les oiseaux au bec tranchant, les lianes étrangleuses et les yeux rouges qui les observent depuis les feuillages, tout cela ne leur dit rien qui vaille... Leur crash est-il vraiment un accident ? Ou sont-ils le jouet d''une expérience qui les dépasse ?

In this ultra-hip conspiracy thriller--a 2005 Book Sense Book of the Year nominee--a shadowy group dedicated to the downfall of consumerism draws a street savvy 17-year-old into its web of brand-name intrigue.

Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.

Les Specials : ce nom faisait frissonner Tally lorsqu''elle n''était qu''une Ugly insoumise et repoussante. Et voilà qu''après une nouvelle opération, elle est devenue une Special à son tour ! Pourtant, la jeune fille ne peut s''empêcher de penser à son ancienne vie. Alors, le jour où les Autorités lui demandent d''éliminer les rebelles de La Nouvelle-Fumée, un choix douloureux s''impose à elle : doit-elle écouter la petite voix de sa conscience ou mener à bien la mission cruelle pour laquelle elle a été conçue ? Quelle que soit sa décision, le monde de Tally ne sera plus jamais le même...

Darcy Parel, 18 ans, a mis l''université et le reste de sa vie entre parenthèses pour signer un contrat avec un agent littéraire new-yorkais et publier son premier roman, Afterworlds. A son arrivée à New York, sans appartement ni amis, elle tombe sur d''autres jeunes auteurs, comme elle, qui la prennent sous leur aile... Un chapitre sur deux, Darcy écrit son roman. Un thriller mettant en scène Lizzie, une ado qui, échappant à une attaque terroriste de justesse, sombre dans l''Afterworlds, un lieu entre la vie et la mort...

Avant de rencontrer Morgane, Cal était un étudiant new-yorkais tout à fait ordinaire. Il aimait la fête et les bars, la vie insouciante du campus. Il aura suffi d''une seule nuit d''amour, la première, pour que sa vie bascule.