We Are the Ants (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781481449632)

A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)

From the "author to watch" (Kirkus Reviews) of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes a brand-new novel about a teenage boy who must decide whether or not the world is worth saving.

Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button.

Only he isn't sure he wants to.

After all, life hasn't been great for Henry. His mom is a struggling waitress held together by a thin layer of cigarette smoke. His brother is a jobless dropout who just knocked someone up. His grandmother is slowly losing herself to Alzheimer's. And Henry is still dealing with the grief of his boyfriend's suicide last year.

Wiping the slate clean sounds like a pretty good choice to him.

But Henry is a scientist first, and facing the question thoroughly and logically, he begins to look for pros and cons: in the bully who is his perpetual one-night stand, in the best friend who betrayed him, in the brilliant and mysterious boy who walked into the wrong class. Weighing the pain and the joy that surrounds him, Henry is left with the ultimate choice: push the button and save the planet and everyone on it...or let the world--and his pain--be destroyed forever.

Author: Shaun David Hutchinson
ISBN-10: 148144963X
ISBN-13: 9781481449632
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2016
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.90w x 1.60d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.5
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 179753 / We Are the Ants


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2015
Booklist 10/01/2015 pg. 76
School Library Journal 11/01/2015 pg. 116
Publishers Weekly 12/14/2015
Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2015 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2016
Shelf Awareness 02/19/2016
School Library Journal 12/01/2016 pg. 35
Shelf Awareness 12/13/2016