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Ireland, Justina. DREAD NATION New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] IL YA ISBN 9780062570604
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Slavery ceases when the dead start to rise again on the battlefields of the Civil War, but has it really ended? With the dead rising, the Native and Negro Education Act is enacted, requiring black and Native American youth to attend combat schools. There they learn to eliminate shamblers — the risen dead. At Miss Preston’s School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is training in both weaponry and etiquette in order to become an Attendant— someone who serves an affluent family against shamblers. Though she is a skilled fighter, Jane does not want the life she has been training for. Jane longs to return home to her mother and the plantation she grew up on in Kentucky, the only shelter she’s ever had from an archaic world. In recognition of their bravery defending the people of Baltimore County, Jane and her schoolmate Katherine are invited to the mayor’s house, where they stumble upon secrets that are more than they had bargained for. Fearing they know too much, the mayor sends Jane and Katherine to Summerland, a frontier outpost with grueling conditions, to work border patrol against shamblers. During her time at Summerland, Jane soon realizes that the shamblers aren't the only thing in this new world worth fighting against. (Georgia Peach Book Award, 2020) |
| SUBJECTS: Conspiracies
-- Fiction. Zombies -- Fiction. African Americans -- Fiction. Horror stories. Baltimore (Md.) -- Fiction. |
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