Like his mother before him, he notices there's something up with the numbers and knows some cataclysmic event will occur.

Adam notices a lot of people's numbers are the same: January 1, 2027. In 2026, global warming and climate change has decimated much of England's coastline, forcing Adam and Val to move from the seaside to London, exactly where Jem didn't want her son to be. With Spider long dead, and Jem having passed away when Adam was only 8 (a death he foresaw and even told his mother about), Adam is raised by Spider's grandmother, Val. The Chaos picks up years after the events at the end of Numbers: Jem and Spider's teenaged son Adam has inherited Jem's ability to see the dates of people's deaths in his head, in addition to seeing and feeling the pain and circumstances surrounding their death. What chaos awaits the world? Can Adam and his damaged friend Sarah stop a catastrophe? Or are they, too, counted among the 'twenty sevens'?Īfter reading the first Numbers book last summer, I knew I had to pick up the sequel once it came out here.

Most disturbing of all, Adam can't help but clock how many people's numbers are in January 2027 how many are on New Year's Day. But as rising tides flood the coast, they flee to London. Orphaned, Adam has grown up by the sea with his great-grandmother, Val. When he stares into someone's eyes, he not only sees the date of their death, he feels the searing, shocking pain of it. That was how he knew she was going to die. When he was just a little boy, Adam learned about the numbers. Publisher: Chicken House (Scholastic), 2011 (Hardcover) Title: Numbers: The Chaos (Book 2 in the Numbers series)

Numbers by rachel ward