Dry

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In Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman, sixteen-year-old Alyssa Morrow and her younger brother, Garrett, face a harrowing struggle for survival in California when a water crisis known as the Tap-Out leaves the state without water. Together with their neighbor Kelton, a prepared survivalist, and a girl named Jacqui, they confront numerous dangers, including desperate people and the threat of dehydration, as they search for water and their missing parents, navigating a society on the brink of collapse. This novel includes discussions of violence, threats of sexual violence, and death.