What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
SOLVED: Children's/YA
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SOLVED. YA fantasy/sci-fi/dystopian? Boy wakes up to world and everyone has disappeared. [s]
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Oh my god that is the book! Thank you so much. You are my hero!
Book Cover Picture: An amusement park with a Ferris wheel (maybe a clown too I'm not sure)
Summary: A teenage boy (I think his name was Nate, not positive though) wakes up in the morning to sunlight streaming through his window, and he realizes his whole family has disappeared. He checks the fridge and lights, and finds out that all the electricity is out. He runs outside and notices that there are no driving cars anywhere and that everything is eerily quiet. Then he goes into his neighbor's home through a side door or something, and nobody is there. He is freaked out a little by now, and he goes back home, grabs the car keys, and decides to drive his dad's car around. And literally everyone is just gone from the world. He then drives to Central Park, and meets this girl, who is also confused as heck and freaked out. They come together and search for other people. They happen to meet this other couple (guy and girl) and they now formed a group of four. Now nighttime has fallen, and they go into a hotel or something near Central Park and steal two key cards for two rooms (since nobody is there to stop them). They basically live together and survive by going into stores and stuff and getting everything for free since there's nobody else left in the world. Like all the stores are completely stocked and everything, but the people are just gone. And slowly the world begins to crumble, like the sidewalks and everything start breaking down for no reason. Then one night, they notice these masked people with full hazard suits searching central park. The four teenagers go out and investigate. And long story short, *SPOILERS* they are on a different planet or some alternate universe, but it resembles Earth exactly because it's based on a figment of their imagination. And those masked people are scientists who came to this planet from a portal. There is something special about the four teenagers, and the scientists needed to investigate how their minds worked or something.
Sorry I read this so long ago so I forgot most of it.
I remember certain other parts of the book but I'm not sure how they fit in.
1) They initially shoot one of the masked guys in hazard suits with a shotgun, and there is this hole in his suit now, and the air in this world is poisonous to him or something. But one of the girls tries to save him by patching the hole up with part of her shirt
2)There is some romance between the characters (two boys and two girls).
Please help me find out the title of this book. I have been searching for so long and any help is appreciated!! Thank you! :)