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A GIRL WITH A
TERRIFYING CHOICE

WOULD YOU SELL YOUR YOUTH TO SURVIVE?
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  • Review in The LA Times - March 11, 2012
    “Readers who have been waiting for a worthy successor to Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games will find it here. Dystopian sci-fi at its best, Starters is a terrific series kickoff with a didn't-see-that-coming conclusion that will leave readers on the edges of their seats . . .”  
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  • Coverage in The Los Angeles Times Spring Preview - March 4, 2012
    “...the next best entry into the crowded future-dystopia teen novel genre.” The Los Angeles Times Spring Preview: Books Read More
  • Review in Kirkus - February 15, 2012
    “…twists and turns come so fast that readers will stay hooked. Constantly rising stakes keep this debut intense.”  Kirkus Reviews. Read More
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Fans of The Hunger Games will love it
----Kami Garcia, New York Times bestselling author of the Beautiful Creatures Novels.
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THE WORLD OF STARTERS
HER WORLD IS CHANGED FOREVER
Callie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. She and her little brother, Tyler, go on the run, living as squatters with their friend Michael and fighting off renegades who would kill them for a cookie. Callie’s only hope is Prime Destinations, a disturbing place in Beverly Hills run by a mysterious figure known as the Old Man.

He hires teens to rent their bodies to Enders—seniors who want to be young again. Callie, desperate for the money that will keep her, Tyler, and Michael alive, agrees to be a donor. But the neurochip they place in Callie’s head malfunctions and she wakes up in the life of her renter, living in her mansion, driving her cars, and going out with a senator’s grandson. It feels almost like a fairy tale, until Callie discovers that her renter intends to do more than party—and that Prime Destinations’ plans are more evil than Callie could ever have imagined. . . .

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lissa Price has studied photography and writing, but the world has turned out to be her greatest teacher. She has walked with elephants in Botswana, swum with penguins in the Galápagos, and stood on a field at sunset amid a thousand nomads in Gujarat, India. She has been surrounded by hundreds of snorting Cape buffalo in South Africa and held an almost silent chorus with a hundred wild porpoises off the coast of Oahu. She has danced in mud huts at village weddings in India and had tea with the most famous living socialite in Kyoto. When she sat down to write, she found that the most surprising journeys were still inside her mind. She lives in the foothills of southern California with her husband and the tar deer. Visit her at LissaPrice.com
EW Shelf Life interviews Lissa Price
  • Los Angeles, CA
    Saturday, May 19th @ 1:00-3:00 p.m.
    Costco
    2901 Los Feliz Blvd.
    Los Angeles, CA 90039
  • Westlake Village, CA
    Saturday, June 16th @ 1:00-300 p.m.
    Costco
    5700 Lindero Canyon Road
    Westlake Village, CA 91362
  • LOS ANGELES,CA
    Tuesday, March 13th @ 6:00 p.m.
    Vroman's
    695 East Colorado Boulevard
    Pasadena, CA 91101
    For more information, visit www.vromansbookstore.com
  • SAN FRANCISCO, CA
    Wednesday, March 14th @ 7:00 p.m.
    Not Your Mother's Book Club Presents: Music and Murder and Changelings, Oh My!
    An event with Lissa Price (Starters), Caitlin Kittredge (The Nightmare Garden), & Nina LaCour (The Disenchantments)
    Books Inc.
    1760 Fourth Street
    Berkeley, CA
    For more information, visit www.bookinc.net
  • SEATTLE, CA
    Saturday, March 17th @ 11:00 a.m.
    Teen Book Brunch with Lissa Price (Starters) & Marissa Meyer (Cinder)
    University Book Store—Mill Creek Town Center
    15311 Main Street
    Mill Creek, WA 98012
    For more information, visit www.bookstore.washington.edu
  • SALT LAKE CITY, UT
    Monday, March 19 @ 7PMth
    Barnes & Noble—West Jordan
    7157 Plaza Center Drive
    West Jordan, UT 84084
    For more information, visit www.barnesandnoble.com
  • CHICAGO, IL
    Wednesday, March 21st @ 7:00 p.m.
    Anderson’s Bookshop
    123 West Jefferson
    Naperville, IL 60540
    For more information, visit www.andersonsbookshop.com
  • NEW YORK, NY
    Wednesday, March 28th @ 6:00 a.m., Details to be announced—Stay tuned!
    TeenLIVE Presents : Could You Survive in a Teen Dystopia?
    New York Public Library
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Berger Forum
    Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY
    For more information, visit www.nypl.org/events
  • PRINCETON, NJ
    Thursday, March 29th @ 7:00 p.m.
    Barnes & Noble—Princeton
    3535 US Route 1
    Princeton, NJ 08540
    For more information, visit www.barnesandnoble.com
  • LOS ANGELES, CA
    Details to be announced—Stay tuned!
    Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (April 21st – 22nd)
    University of Southern California
    Exposition Boulevard and South Figueroa Street
    Los Angeles, CA 90089
    For more information, visit events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/
  • HUNTINGON BEACH, CA
    Wednesday, April 25th @ 7:00 p.m.
    Barnes & Noble—Huntington Beach
    7881 Edinger Avenue
    Huntington Beach, CA 92647
    For more information, visit www.barnesandnoble.com
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