Author: Richard Paul Evans, #1 New York Times bestselling author 

First Edition: August 9, 2011 

Category: Young Adult Fiction

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Why this book?  Simple: Great story, great values.  Take a tour through the Young Adult section of the book store and you'll find that it’s a pretty dark place.  Vampires, drugs, suicide—these are not the kinds of lessons that our youth should constantly be exposed to.  But Michael Vey is different.  It's a first rate sci-fi thriller that teaches important life lessons without ever preaching.  In other words, it’s the kind of book that we'd not only read ourselves, but would be happy to hand to our own kids.

Michael Vey, ultimately, is about hope.  It's about the power and beauty each of us has inside, even when our outsides tell us different.  It's not a story about darkness, dysfunction or dystopian worlds, but about light, loyalty and friendship.  It's a story that we hope many people will enjoy and relate to.

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"In thirty years of teaching, I've never had this kind of response to a book."

- Pat Daskalas, a Salt Lake City English teacher who used Michael Vey in her classroom