Overview
Choose a tribe. Watch your back. And don't stop running. Filled with thrilling adventure and romance, The Forsaken is praised by EntertainmentWeekly.com as "a fast-paced novel that] you'll get sucked into. You just can't seem to put it] down." As an obedient orphan of the U.N.A. (the super-country that was once Mexico, the US, and Canada), Alenna learned at an early age to blend in and be quiet--having your parents taken by the police will do that to a girl. But Alenna can't help standing out when she fails a test that all sixteen-year-olds have to take: The test says she has a high capacity for brutal violence, and so she is sent to the wheel, an island where all would-be criminals end up. The life expectancy of prisoners on the wheel is just two years, but with dirty, violent, and chaotic conditions, the time seems a lot longer as Alenna is forced to deal with civil wars for land ownership and machines that snatch kids out of their makeshift homes. Desperate, she and a charismatic warrior named Liam concoct a potentially fatal plan to flee the island. Survival may seem impossible, but Alenna is determined to achieve it anyway.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781442432666
- ISBN-10: 1442432667
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Publish Date: June 2013
- Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 400
- Reading Level: Ages 12-17
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