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"I'm alive," Mo'Steel reported. "If this is a dream, it's the mother, father, sister, and brother of weird. We got all of weird's cousins in on this. Come on up. You gotta see this. You have got to see this."

  Escaping a doomed Earth seemed like a good ideauntil the shuttle crew lands on a strange planet five hundred years in the future. Half the terrain looks like an abstract painting, the other is like a haunting black-and-white photograph. Can they survive on this strange, new world?

  Copyright © 2001 by Katherine Applegate. All rights reserved. Published by Scholastic Inc. SCHOLASTIC, APPLE PAPERBACKS, and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc. REMNANTS and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Katherine Applegate. Cover Art by Jonathan Barkat Cover Design by Ursula S. Albano

  eISBN 0-4397-3995-0

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  Printed in the U.S.A. First Scholastic printing, July 2001

  CONTENTS

  PROLOGUE

  DAYS TO IMPACT:5

  CHAPTER ONE BANG.

  CHAPTER TWO YOU DONT WANT TO BE IN A BODY CAST WHEN IT HAPPENS.

  DAYS TO IMPACT:4

  CHAPTER THREE IT WOULDNT BE LIKE KILLING IN A NORMAL WAY.

  CHAPTER FOUR YOU UP FOR SOMETHING STUPID AND DANGEROUS?

  CHAPTER FIVE WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DINOSAURS, RIGHT?

  CHAPTER SIX ITS JUST NOT HERO TIME.

  DAYS TO IMPACT:3

  CHAPTER SEVEN NO ONE MAY SURVIVE.

  CHAPTER EIGHT WHERE EXACTLY ARE WE GOING?

  CHAPTER NINE YOU HAVE TO ASSUME THOSE TWO KIDS ARE ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

  CHAPTER TEN TICKTOCK, HERE COMES THE ROCK.

  CHAPTER ELEVEN SHE LAKKA YOU BEEZNESS.

  DAYS TO IMPACT:2

  CHAPTER TWELVE OH, MY GOD, ALL THOSE PEOPLE.

  CHAPTER THIRTEEN MAYBE THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END, IT DOESNT MATTER: YOU FOLLOW ORDERS.

  DAYS TO IMPACT:1

  CHAPTER FOURTEEN IM NOT KILLING ANYONE, THE ROCK IS KILLING THEM.

  CHAPTER FIFTEEN YOULL BE THERE. YOULL BE THERE.

  DAYS TO IMPACT:0

  CHAPTER SIXTEEN DONT PANIC, BUT KEEP MOVING.

  CHAPTER SEVENTEEN THEYRE ON THEIR WAY HERE, WELL-ARMED, CRAZY, NOTHING TO LOSE.

  CHAPTER EIGHTEEN WERE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND LIGHT THE CANDLE.

  CHAPTER NINETEEN ldquo;YOURE WEIGHTLESS, YOU IDIOT.

  CHAPTER TWENTY GET ME HIS BERTH NUMBER. ILL THAW HIM OUT.

  IMPACT

  CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE THATS THE ROCK.

  CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO TWO WHOLE SECONDS TO SIT HERE AND CHAT.

  CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE ITS OVER.

  CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR PUT ME TO SLEEP, OR KILL ME, BUT MAKE IT STOP.

  K.A. APPLEGATE REMNANTS 2 Destination Unknown IF THIS IS A DREAM, IT'S THE MOTHER, FATHER, SISTER, AND BROTHER OF WEIRD.