It's Not the End of the World - Paperback

by Riley (Author), Sophie Riley (Illustrator)

This special edition includes full-color illustrations by the author in every chapter.

Fourteen-year-old Layla was supposed to get her braces off in two days. Instead, the world ended.

All Layla wants is to make comics with her best friend, avoid another fight with her mom, and see her older brother, Preston, come home from his grueling wilderness therapy camp. But when a mysterious virus sweeps across the country--turning people into violent, undead monsters--her mundane worries are replaced by a singular, desperate mission: get to Preston before the camp becomes his grave.

As the power grid fails and society collapses, Layla and her anxious, untrusting mother are forced into a perilous roadtrip to Oregon. But the road is crawling with more than just the infected. From eerie Wild West tourist traps to desolate salt flats, Layla must navigate a landscape where human desperation and the ghosts of familial resentment are just as destructive as the virus itself.

Told through the eyes of a girl witnessing the end of her childhood and the end of civilization alike, IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD explores the messy endurance of motherly love and how far a family will go to find their way back to each other--and be forgiven. When the world breaks down, loyalty is the only currency left. But will it be enough to keep them together?