H.A. Swain

Hungry

Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan

In seventeen-year-old Thalia’s world, there is no more food and no need for food, as mega-corporation One World has altered human DNA so that they no longer experience any pesky hunger pangs. One World also supplies all nutrition through a substance called Synthamil. Thalia’s mother is the brilliant scientist who developed Sythamil, and their family lives a life of privilege as a result..until Thalia begins to suffer unexplainable spasms in her abdomen. She resists being shipped off to a “specialist,” and teams up with a non-“privy,” Basil, who leads her further into the resistance movement than she would have thought possible.