Test

Pass, and have it madefail, and suffer the consequences. A master of teen thrillers tests readers' courage in an edge-of-your-seat novel that echoes the fears of exam-takers everywhere. Ann, a teenage girl living in the security-obsessed, elitist United States of the very near future, is threatened on her way home from school by a mysterious man on a black motorcycle. Soon, she and a new friend are caught up in a vast conspiracy of greed involving the megawealthy owner of a school testing company. Students who pass his test have it made; those who don't disappear . . . or worse. Will Ann be next? For all those who suspect standardized tests are an evil conspiracy, here's an edge-of-your-seat thriller that really satisfies.

William Sleator is considered a master of science fiction and thrillers for middle-grade readers and young adults. R. L. Stine calls Sleator “one of my favorite young adult writers,” and Publishers Weekly says his work is “the best that science fiction can offer.” Sleator divides his time between homes in Boston and rural Thailand.