Across The Universe
Across the Universe
Across The Universe
Beth Revis
Book 1 in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, perfect for fans of Battlestar Gallactica and Passengers!WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SURVIVE ABOARD A SPACESHIP FUELED BY LIES?Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the spaceship Godspeed. She has left her boyfriend, friends--and planet--behind to join her parents as a member of Project Ark Ship. Amy and her parents believe they will wake on a new planet, Centauri-Earth, three hundred years in the future. But fifty years before Godspeed's scheduled landing, cryo chamber 42 is mysteriously unplugged, and Amy is violently woken from her frozen slumber.Someone tried to murder her.Now, Amy is caught inside an enclosed world where nothing makes sense. Godspeed's 2,312 passengers have forfeited all control to Eldest, a tyrannical and frightening leader. And Elder, Eldest's rebellious teenage heir, is both fascinated with Amy and eager to discover whether he has what it takes to lead.Amy desperately wants to trust Elder. But should she put her faith in a boy who has never seen life outside the ship's cold metal walls? All Amy knows is that she and Elder must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets before whoever woke her tries to kill again.

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Genre: 

  • Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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In Across the Universe, by Beth Revis, Amy decides to freeze herself cryogenically in order to remain with her parents as they travel to another planet 300 years away from Earth. However, 250 years into the journey, she becomes unplugged, and nearly dies. Onboard the strange ship named Godspeed, Eldest rules every single person. Elder, the only teenage boy aboard the ship, is in line to becoming Eldest. Upon discovering that she cannot be refrozen, Amy has trouble adjusting to life on the massive ship.

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