num_pages: 456
description: January 29 2035.Thats the day the comet is scheduled to hitthe big one. Denise and her mother and sister Iris have been assigned to a temporary shelter near their hometown of Amsterdam to wait out the blast but Iris is nowhere to be found and at the rate Denises drug-addicted mother is going theyll never reach the shelter in time.Then a last-minute encounter leads them to something better than a temporary shelter: a generation ship thats scheduled to leave Earth behind and colonize new worlds after the comet hits. But each passenger must have a practical skill to contribute. Denise is autistic and fears that shell never be allowed to stay. Can she obtain a spot before the ship takes flight? What about her mother and sister?When the future of the human race is at stake whose lives matter most?
language: English
title: On the Edge of Gone
publisher: Amulet Books