We Are the Ants We Are the Ants

We Are the Ants

    • 4.6 • 152 Ratings
    • $9.99

Publisher Description

A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)

From the “author to watch” (Kirkus Reviews) of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes an “equal parts sarcastic and profound” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) novel about a teenage boy who must decide whether or not the world is worth saving.

Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button.

Only he isn’t sure he wants to.

After all, life hasn’t been great for Henry. His mom is a struggling waitress held together by a thin layer of cigarette smoke. His brother is a jobless dropout who just knocked someone up. His grandmother is slowly losing herself to Alzheimer’s. And Henry is still dealing with the grief of his boyfriend’s suicide last year.

Wiping the slate clean sounds like a pretty good choice to him.

But Henry is a scientist first, and facing the question thoroughly and logically, he begins to look for pros and cons: in the bully who is his perpetual one-night stand, in the best friend who betrayed him, in the brilliant and mysterious boy who walked into the wrong class. Weighing the pain and the joy that surrounds him, Henry is left with the ultimate choice: push the button and save the planet and everyone on it…or let the world—and his pain—be destroyed forever.

GENRE
Young Adult
RELEASED
2016
January 19
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
464
Pages
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
10.1
MB
AUDIENCE
Grades 9 and Above

Customer Reviews

Envi.Kai ,

Love it!

The ending was not expected but it’s still a great book.

dkli210 ,

Not a sci fi reader, however…

The characters were likable and believable with sad, bittersweet and funny moments. I was hoping to see some transitions and it did come to fruition.

tayteonnamarie ,

😍😍😍

I am not usually one for science fiction or anything related to aliens. But this book was extremely captivating in a way that i haven’t felt in a while! It was so raw and heart wrenching and really made you feel something! I’d read it a thousand more times! and the LGBT+ representation was amazing as well!

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