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Gr 8 Up—In this sequel to Denton Little's Deathdate, Denton is still alive, one day after he was supposed to have died. Even more confusing, he wakes to find his mother, who he thought had died while giving birth to him. At first, he thinks that they are both ghosts, or that she is leading him up the stairs to heaven—and a very ugly heaven at that. Then Denton's mother explains that she was part of a team that developed a virus that could counteract assigned deathdates and she had injected herself with ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Denton was supposed to die the day before this book begins, as readers will recall from Denton Little's Deathdate (rev. 3/15), but it turns out that he has been injected with a virus to override the deathdates predicted at birth by a mandatory test, and what he thought would be the last day of his life is instead the start of a covert existence full of illicit shenanigans. Beca...Log In or Sign Up to Read More