THE SCORCH TRIALS

Book ID/图书代码： 06814010B39555

English Summary/英文概要： Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. No more variables. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one really knew what sort of life they were going back to.
In the Maze, life was easy. They had food, and shelter, and safety . . . until Teresa triggered the end. In the world outside the Maze, however, the end was triggered long ago.
Burned by sun flares and baked by a new, brutal climate, the earth is a wasteland. Government has disintegrated—and with it, order—and now Cranks, people covered in festering wounds and driven to murderous insanity by the infectious disease known as the Flare, roam the crumbling cities hunting for their next victim . . . and meal.
The Gladers are far from finished with running. Instead of freedom, they find themselves faced with another trial. They must cross the Scorch, the most burned-out section of the world, and arrive at a safe haven in two weeks. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.
Thomas can only wonder—does he hold the secret of freedom somewhere in his mind? Or will he forever be at the mercy of WICKED?

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 迷宮之謎已經解開。湯瑪斯知道，逃跑意味著他們將要回到原來的生活。但是原來的生活是什麼樣的，大家卻一無所知。

迷宮內的生活簡單舒適。衣食無憂，很安全…直到有一天德蕾莎引發了它的結束。而另他們無法想像的是迷宮外的生活卻早已經發生了翻天覆地的變化。。

烈日焚燒著大地，地球已變成一片荒原。政府的統治支離破碎，一種被稱為Flare的傳染病橫行肆虐，遍身潰爛、精神崩潰的人們游離著，尋覓著他們的獵物…或是食物。。

重獲自由從迷宮逃出來的這些孩子們，正在經歷著另一場可怕的考驗。他們必須在兩周之內逃離這片烈焰炙烤的荒原，到達安全地帶。

湯瑪斯仍在苦苦思索—在他的記憶深處是否真的暗藏著那個神秘的安全密碼？他會永遠禁錮在WICKED的控制之下嗎？(Claire)

Awards/获奖情况：Gr 7 Up–This dystopian novel begins where The Maze Runner (Delacorte, 2009) ends. Thomas and the rest of the group’s escape from the Maze and the horrifying creatures called Grievers has proven to be short-lived because WICKED, the group behind it all, has another trial in store for them. Sun flares have destroyed most of the Earth, and a virus called the Flare has ravaged its population. Infected people turn into zombies called Cranks that attack and eat one other. The kids are told that they have the Flare but if they succeed in surviving the second trial, they will be cured. With few supplies, they must travel across 100 miles of hot and scorched land within two weeks to reach a safe house to receive the cure. When Teresa, Thomas’s best friend and the only girl in the group, disappears, and he loses the ability to communicate telepathically with her, he and the other guys determine to find her. As they trek across the barren desert encountering crazed Cranks, the teens’ loyalty to one another and the group is tested. The fast-paced narrative and survival-of-the-fittest scenario is reminiscent of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games (Scholastic, 2008). Although these characters aren’t quite as compelling and their made-up slang takes a little getting used to, each character’s personality is distinct. The unresolved ending will leave readers impatiently waiting for the conclusion to the trilogy.–Sharon Rawlins, New Jersey State Library, Trenton. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. ---From School Library Journal

The exercise in withholding information begun in The Maze Runner (2009) continues. The boys who had their memories wiped before being dropped into a massive maze have escaped, but they now have to trek across a sunflare-blasted wasteland to get the cure to the insanity disease they’ve been infected with. The wickedly violent action and rush to figure out what’s actually going on help distract from a number of gaping plot holes. Fans will want this one, too, but know that Dashner still has an awful lot of explaining to do in the upcoming finale. Grades 9-12. ---Ian Chipman, From Booklist

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THE SCORCH TRIALS comes out 18 September 2015 in the US and around then in most territories.

10 September 2015: Australia and New Zealand
16 September 2015: Belgium, France, Indonesia
17 September 2015: Argentina, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Croatia, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Serbia Russia, Slovenia, Thailand, Ukraine
18 September 2015: Spain, UK, Iceland, Romania, Sweden, South Africa
24 September 2015: Germany, Croatia, Netherlands 25 September 2015: Poland
27 February 2016: Japan

About the Author/作者介绍： James Dashner was born and raised in Georgia but now lives and writes in the Rocky Mountains. He is also the author of the series The 13th Reality. To learn more about him and his books, visit www.jamesdashner.com.James Dasher寫過The 13th Reality和The Jimmy Fincher Saga等兒童奇幻系列故事。 作品The Journal of Curious Letters被選入2008 Borders Original Voices Pick. Cedar Fort, Inc.和Shadow Mountain Press選讀作品。

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