Lauren Oliver’s powerful NY Moments bestselling novel Delirium-the first in a dystopian trilogy-presents a world as terrifying as George Orwell’s 1984 and a love as true as Romeo & Juliet.

Within an alternate USA, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the federal government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Coping with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a about Delirium safe, predictable lifestyle. She watched like destroy her mother and isn’t about to make the same errors.

But with ninety-five days remaining until her treatment, Lena matches enigmatic Alex, a youngster through the Wilds who lives beneath the government’s radar. What will happen if indeed they do the unthinkable and fall in like?

Delirium received starred evaluations from Kirkus and School Library Journal, and was named a Best Book of the Year by USA Today, Kirkus, Amazon.com, YALSA, as well as the Chicago Community Collection and was selected as one of NPR’s Best 100 Best Ever Teen Books.

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