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The Best of All Worlds
2025
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The trip to the cottage should have been a fun family weekend for thirteen-year-old Zay, despite another summer of extreme weather. At least, that’s what his father and stepmother had in mind when they planned the weekend getaway. But that was before Zay’s older brother, Sam, decided to stay behind. Before Zay, Caleb, and Nia discovered their surroundings had inexplicably transformed overnight. Before they realized they were trapped inside a dome. And before the weekend turned into three long years. If this were a game, Zay would know how to win it. But this is no game. There is no trace of their mysterious captors, no clue as to their motives, and no way to escape. The only rule is survival. Just when Zay and his family have all but given up hope, something new shows up in their strange another family. The Jacksons are polar opposites of Zay’s family. Conservatives from Tennessee, they believe a government conspiracy is behind their strange abduction, and they’re willing to do just about anything to prove it and find a way out. Despite their family’s differences, Zay begins to fall for their daughter, Mackenzie. For the first time since their captivity, he begins to think he could be happy living inside the dome. But tensions rise as the Jacksons continue searching for a way out, and their actions trigger unexpected and dangerous consequences—for everyone.

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Kenneth Oppel
Kenneth Oppel
Author · 36 books
I was born in 1967 in Port Alberni, a mill town on Vancouver Island, British Columbia but spent the bulk of my childhood in Victoria, B.C. and on the opposite coast, in Halifax, Nova Scotia...At around twelve I decided I wanted to be a writer (this came after deciding I wanted to be a scientist, and then an architect). I started out writing sci-fi epics (my Star Wars phase) then went on to swords and sorcery tales (my Dungeons and Dragons phase) and then, during the summer holiday when I was fourteen, started on a humorous story about a boy addicted to video games (written, of course, during my video game phase). It turned out to be quite a long story, really a short novel, and I rewrote it the next summer. We had a family friend who knew Roald Dahl - one of my favourite authors - and this friend offered to show Dahl my story. I was paralysed with excitement. I never heard back from Roald Dahl directly, but he read my story, and liked it enough to pass on to his own literary agent. I got a letter from them, saying they wanted to take me on, and try to sell my story. And they did.
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