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Best of All Worlds

Kenneth Oppel

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June 3, 2025

Penguin Random House Canada

  • Young Adult

Best of All Worlds

Kenneth Oppel

A startling novel that defies genre to create a teen survival thriller unlike any you’ve read before. Xavier Oaks doesn’t want to go to the cabin with his dad and his dad’s pregnant new wife, Nia. But family obligations are family obligations. So he leaves his mom, his brother, and his other friends behind for a week in the woods. Only . . . one morning he wakes up and the house isn’t where it was before. It’s like it’s been lifted and placed somewhere else. They soon find they are inside a dome, trapped. And there’s no one else around. Until, three years later, another family arrives.