Bite Risk

S.J. Wills

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781665938020
• Edition: 0

The Last Kids on Earth gets a lupine twist by way of Margaret Peterson Haddix in this eerie middle grade adventure set in a small town where all the adults are werewolves but the kids begin to suspect something else sinister is putting them at even greater risk.

When everyone’s a werewolf, it’s hard to spot the monster…

Thirteen-year-old Sel lives in the remote, isolated town of Tremorglade, where nothing interesting ever seems to happen. Well, unless you count the one night a month when the full moon rises and kids like him must lock up their parents while they transform into werewolves (though Tremorgladers prefer to call them Rippers). But that’s the whole world’s new normal since the Disruption changed everything well before Sel was born.

But when strange things begin happening in Tremorglade, like drones emitting sickening sounds and people behaving oddly, Sel and his friends begin asking questions about what’s really going on in their small town. And suspiciously soon after they do, Rippers begin escaping on confinement nights, people start disappearing, and the kids suspect they’re being followed.

Maybe there’s a reason no one ever seems to leave Tremorglade…and it’s up to Sel and his friends to figure out the truth someone doesn’t want them to know before another full moon puts them all at a bite risk.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Chapter One: April—Confinement Night
• Chapter Two
• Chapter Three
• Chapter Four
• Chapter Five: May—Confinement Night
• Chapter Six
• Chapter Seven: May—29 Days to Next Confinement
• Chapter Eight: May—27 Days to Next Confinement
• Chapter Nine: May—21 Days to Next Confinement
• Chapter Ten
• Chapter Eleven: May—20 Days to Next Confinement
• Chapter Twelve: May—19 Days to Next Confinement
• Chapter Thirteen: June—Confinement Night
• Chapter Fourteen: June—30 Days to Next Confinement
• Chapter Fifteen: July—Confinement Night
• Chapter Sixteen
• Chapter Seventeen: August—14 Days to Next Confinement
• Chapter Eighteen
• Chapter Nineteen
• Chapter Twenty: August—Confinement Night
• Chapter Twenty-One
• Chapter Twenty-Two
• Chapter Twenty-Three: August—30 Days to Next Confinement
• Chapter Twenty-Four: September—7 Days to Next Confinement
• Chapter Twenty-Five: September—Confinement Night
• Chapter Twenty-Six
• Chapter Twenty-Seven
• Chapter Twenty-Eight
• Chapter Twenty-Nine
• Chapter Thirty
• Chapter Thirty-One
• Chapter Thirty-Two
• Chapter Thirty-Three
• Chapter Thirty-Four
• Epilogue: Three Months Later
• Acknowledgments
• ‘Cold Blood’ Teaser
• About the Author
• Copyright