Alina & Lev are two siblings living in Pripyat, one of the Soviet Union's proud nuclear cities. Both are asleep in their beds. Their cousin, Yuri, is a custodian at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where he's fiercely attacking a spill in the hallway with a mop. Alina's best friend, Sofiya, sleeps just a few doors down. Her father is an engineer at the plant, a fact that has always filled her with pride. In five minutes, Reactor No. 4 will explode...

"William wins a driverless car that takes him and his friends anywhere they want to go ... and to some places they don't"-- After winning a contest-- and nearly dying in the process-- William Mackler becomes the proud owner of Autonomous, a driverless car that knows where you want to go before you do. He gets to pick three friends to go with him on a cross-country trip, and this will be the perfect last hurrah before he and his friends go their separate...

Fifteen-year-old Mistletoe lives in the subcanopy zone amid poverty and outdated technology, but when she meets Ambrose Truax, the privileged sixteen-year-old heir to the Unison empire and they discover they share a sinister link, they begin a frightening journey into the uncharted territory of the Unison 3.0 upgrade.

"Artem lives in the sleepy city of Stalingrad, which has mostly been cut off from war with Nazi Germany--until now. That July, martial law is declared as the Nazis begin their unprecedented march toward the city. Artem's older brother is a soldier in Stalin's Red Army, and Artem is worried for his brother's safety once he and his family have evacuated the city. Then the announcement comes. Stalin has ordered that no civilians be allowed to leave Stalingrad....