Outside reading: The scorch trials The Scorch Trials by James Dashner is a dystopian science fiction novel, in the book series The Maze Runner which is about a group of teenagers and the main character named Thomas are put into a maze in the first book by a group called WICKED, and run tests on them by putting them through horrible things in the maze. WICKED says that they do that because they are intelligent and are the only ones who can save the human race of the things that are going on outside of the maze. When they finally escape the maze they get rescued and get taken to a safe place and make them think that it's over. In the second book they find out that they have been tricked and that it's really not over and get released