Aisle Nine
Ian X. Cho
HarperCollins
Jasper doesn't remember the world before. He works at the Here for You Discount Mart where hell portals occasionally open up unleashing monsters in the store and elsewhere. There are soldiers trained to protect citizens including the girl Jasper has a crush on, Kyle. When Jasper and Kyle discover they share visions of a second apocalypse, they team up to stop it. The countdown is on as the Black Friday Doomsday looms.
Content Warnings: death, violence, depictions of gore and blood, discussion of parental death, forced institutionalization, panic attacks, suicidal thoughts
Discussion questions
What do you think Cho is trying to say about the world we're living in with this novel?
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Classroom Connections
Have a Genre Literature class? This would be a modern dystopian with a bit (or a lot) of humor thrown in.
Awards
ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers
Morris Award Finalist
Chicogo Public Library Best of the Best
Junior Library Guild Selection
Author
https://www.instagram.com/ianxcho_author/
Ian X Cho lives on Australia’s sunny Gold Coast. He writes fiction for young adults and works as a freelance graphic designer.
In his free time he enjoys creating pixel animations.
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