When her shelter is threatened, she is forced to join Aidan's small community. Although she doesn't want to have anything to do with people, she meets a boy named Aidan, and can't help being intrigued by him. Sixteen-year-old Lucy is living on her own in a primitive shelter in what was once Central Park. Society has been decimated by global weather changes (flooding and droughts), followed by a smallpox epidemic that "reduced the global population to less than 1 percent of what it had been within three short months." 30 to 60-year olds were particularly hard hit, such that most of the survivors of the epidemic are either kids or the elderly. Jo Treggiari's Ashes, Ashes is a near-future post-apocalyptic young adult novel (one of many published in the past year or so, but one that I found appealing).
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