Not a Drop to Drink: Mindy McGinnis

This book did not end at all like I was hoping. It was very good though. Lynn, a teenager, lives with her mom in her mother's childhood home by the pond. The books starts with the line that she shot a man that day protecting the pond. We realize that this is not the world we know. This dystopia was caused by a disease epidemic and most survivors have moved to the towns. Water is regulated and expensive. Lynn and her mother spend every waking moment surviving; purifying water, gathering foo and wood. After the monotony of shooting people off their land who head for the pond, some huge wolves come. They end up attacking her mother and Lynn trying to help accidently shoots her mom instead of the wolves and they kill her. She lives with her grief and loneliness until the neighbor who they only ever see from a distance, comes over and talks about the people living by the creek. Lynn goes over to investigate and finds a little girl and a boy about her age. The boy tells her she must take the little girl as she is dying because he doesn't know how to take care of her. The little girl's mom is having a baby and grieving for her husband who was killed when they were forced out of the city. Lynn learns to love with the little girl and falls in love with the boy. They become a sort of family until one day the grandmother shows up with some rebels and is "exchanged" for the daughter who lost the baby. The woman shoots herself and Lynn and the group retaliate. The boy is killed and Lynn raises the girl as her own mourning for those she loved and lost.