In a post-apocalyptic world, the children must learn to lead. The cities, plagued by engineered viruses, are now overrun with mutants, while most of the adults outside their walls have already died. Increasingly wary of all genetically modified food sources, the few remaining adults have now set fire to what's left of the community's supply of seeds.
With food growing scarce, half-brothers Adan and Malik have been sent to find the Outliers-a reclusive...