The 5th Wave

The 5th Wave is the first novel in Rick Yancey's trilogy about an alien invasion.

Plot Teaser
"After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the  un lucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother--or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up."

--from Goodreads

Characters

 * Cassie Sullivan
 * Sammy Sullivan
 * Evan Walker
 * Ben Parish

Adaptations
A film adaptation of The 5th Wave is scheduled for release in January 2016, starring Chloe Grace Moretz as Cassie.

Awards and Honors
The 5th Wave won the 2014 Red House Children's Book Award, has been named to several best teen fiction lists, including YALSA's, and was nominated for a Carnegie Medal.