The Countdown Series provides all the support you need in helping pupils to improve their literacy skills. It is a comprehensive and flexible resource which you can use in different ways, and includes: Over 100 stand-alone modules that cover all aspects of writing and understanding non-fiction, poetry and creative writing; A countdown flowchart providing an overview, showing how modules are linked and allowing teachers and pupils to track their progress; Photocopiable activity sheets for every module that show how to make decisions and solve problems that writers face on the journey to a...

COUNTDOWN
It's 1999.
Party like there's no tomorrow.
Pray that there will be.
JANUARY
On New Year's Day, it happens:
Over six billion people die within twenty-four hours.
The stunned survivors are left to fend for themselves in a world where chaos reigns. A world with no rules, no order...and no adults.
Because the only people left are teenagers.

It's 1999. Do you know where your parents are?
It's been one month since a savage plague killed everyone on earth except teenagers.
The young survivors thought they had lived through the worst of it.
But now, driven from cities overrun with violence, fueled by hunger and desperation, they are about to come face-to-face with an even greater threat:
Each other.

COUNT DOWN
It's 1999.
The overpopulation problem has been solved.
On a planet decimated by a brutal plague. The number one pastime has been staying alive.
The survivors -- teenagers -- thought they were the only people left on earth. But they are about to discover they're not alone.
Something is watching them. Something ancient. Something evil. Something that has waited for centuries for its time to arrive....
The wait is finally over.

It's 1999.
And you thought that first plague sucked?
MAY
The plague that killed every adult on the planet was vicious. It wasn't the last.
A devastating new plague has descended upon the teenage survivors -- a swarming, deafening terror that blackens the sky.
From this new darkness, a leader will emerge. But does he bring salvation -- or destruction?

COUNTDOWN
It's 1999.
Not even love can save you now.
JUNE
When the plague killed every adult on earth, the teenagers thought they had been spared. Now, one by one, they're dying, too.
Two people believe one thing can endure: their love.
They're convinced that their bond is stronger than the menace surrounding them. Their power to create will fill the planet's void. Their passion will outlive their peril.
They're wrong.

COUNTDOWN It's 1999.
Know your enemy. Wait -- you
already do.
JULY
Ever since the plague, it's been a world with no adults. Now the teenage survivors are dying, too.
Trust has never been so important. Or so deadly.
Because the only one who can save them will be deceived by the person she trusts most.

COUNTDOWN It's 1999.
There's no cure for the end of
the world. Or is there?
AUGUST
The survivors of the plague thought everyone over twenty was dead.
They're in for the shock of their lives. Because a cure exist.
Its discovery could lead to a new hope. A chance for survival. A future.
Or it could lead to the deadliest betrayal yet...

COUNTDOWN
It's 1999.
The Earth moved. Really.
SEPTEMBER
Only the strongest teens have survived. But now Earth is crashing and crumbling down around them, advancing -- piece by piece -- toward a final, grinding halt.
It can be stopped. There is a key -- a key that can save the world from total annihilation.
If it doesn't fall into the hands of she who has been chosen...to kill them all.