Eli and his family have lived in the Compound for six years.
The world they knew is gone.
Eli's father built the Compound to keep them safe. Now, they can't get out.
He won't let them.



Dad asked me if I wanted to see more of the Compound.

I didn't. We would have to wait fifteen years before it would be safe to go outside. Which left more than enough time to see the rest of the Compound.

Our new world.

A world I would soon hate.

S. A. Bodeen is the author of several acclaimed picture books, and a winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award. A native of Wisconsin, she most recently lived in the Pacific Northwest, where she wrote The Compound and taught creative writing. This is her first novel.