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  • Published: 15 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780385740449
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $17.99

The Only Ones




Apocalyptic fable about the last innocent boy in the world and his journey to a village of oddball children who see either salvation or doom in the giant machine they help him build out of scraps from an amusement park.

"Call it coincidence, call it fate. This is the place you come. There's no one else. This is the entire world."

These words welcome Martin Maple to the village of Xibalba. Like the other children who've journeyed there, he faces an awful truth.

He was forgotten.

When families and friends all disappeared one afternoon, these were the only ones left behind.

There's Darla, who drives a monster truck, Felix, who uses string and wood to rebuild the Internet, Lane, who crafts elaborate contraptions, and nearly 40 others, each equally brilliant and peculiar.

Inspired by the prophesies of a mysterious boy who talks to animals, Martin believes he can reunite them with their loved ones. But believing and knowing are two different things, as he soon discovers with the push of a button, flip of a switch, turn of a dial. . . .

  • Published: 15 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780385740449
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $17.99

About the author

Aaron Starmer

Aaron Starmer is the author of more than a dozen middle grade and young adult novels, including You Are Now Old Enough to Hear This, Night Swimming, the Locker 37 series, The Riverman Trilogy, and Spontaneous, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed film from Paramount Pictures. His books have been translated into multiple foreign languages and have appeared on best-of-the-year lists from TIME magazine, the Wall Street Journal, New York Public Library, YALSA, Bank Street College of Education, Chicago Public Library, and School Library Journal. He lives in Vermont with his wife and two children.

You can find Aaron online at @AaronStarmer

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Praise for The Only Ones

"One of the most unique, captivating books I've ever read. I was completely pulled into its pages and they never let me go."--James Dashner

"One of the most unique, captivating books I've ever read. I was completely pulled into its pages and they never let me go."--James Dashner