Jake Burt wrote a book about a pandemic and a pandemic started. That is pretty wild. This is a science fiction story about a family who lives in an apartment building and they never can leave. This is a result of a pandemic of Influenza D which caused many people to die. Society decided to use technology to become a new society where everyone stays in their apartments all of the time. People socialize, work, and live through virtual reality. For example, when they go to the park, it is a simulation and they are really in their own home. All supplies come through a tube. No one has any need to leave.
12-year-old Cleo is studying for a test to become a doctor but is distracted by a package that is delivered to their home. It has life-saving medicine addressed to someone else. Her parents tell her that this is impossible to have a mistake in the order and to not worry about it. It could be reordered. Cleo is convinced someone is in medical danger and plots a way to leave and find this address.
When Cleo leaves through the tube she discovers a very different world than what she has ever known and she is not sure she can ever make her way back home. She encounters giant robots who provide for the sequestered community and some people who may have not gone along with the quarantine at all. She may not be able to save herself let alone the mysterious person at the address.
Lots of action will make this a great read for kids. I can imagine this being a really good graphic novel or animated video. This is a very different kind of science fiction and a great introduction for middle-grade readers. When I read the summary, I just couldn't resist reading about the aftermath of a futuristic pandemic.
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