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#1
In a distant
future, North
America has been split into two nations that are at
war. June, a
brilliant 15-year-old is being groomed by the Republic
to be a soldier.
Day is also 15 but he is a criminal who is wanted by
the Republic.
When Day is accused of killing June's brother, June
uses all her training
and cunning to track him down. June goes
undercover in the Lake district
and is exposed to a world she has never
experienced. And she meets
a boy who she is instantly attracted to. What
will she do when she
learns that she is falling in love with Day, the boy
she has sworn to bring
to justice?
Booktalk #2
Set in a
Dystopian future,
and told in two voices.
The western
half of the United
States has seceded and is ruled by The Republic, an
oppressive totalitarian
regime. 15 yr-old Day, who lives off the streets, is
one of their most
wanted criminals, but to others he's a kind of Robin
Hood. When his younger
brother is infected with a deadly virus, Day breaks
into the regime hospital
for the needed medicine. He is discovered on his way
out and has to fight
a Regime soldier to escape.
That soldier
dies before morning,
and that soldier has a younger sister in the forces,
15 yr-old June. She
is one of their brightest prodigies, and she is now
committed to hunting
down Day and avenging her brother's death. But when
the two meet, they
are both undercover and neither knows the other's true
identity. As they
work together, each one is drawn to the other, for
they are much alike.
They both are young heroes.
As June begins
to experience
the darker side of the Republic, and learn more about
that fateful night,
she becomes convinced that her brother's death may
involve some inside
treachery. She has to solve this, and, she now
is also committed
to somehow saving Day from execution. In desperation
she devises a plan,
but can she make it work?
When the story
ends, you want
more. Thank heavens it's the 1st of a series!
(NH Isinglass Teen
Award nominee, 2013)
Booktalk #3
Now is a great time
to pick up Marie Lu's Legend trilogy, since the
final installment was recently published! The
trilogy opens with _Legend_, a dystopian adventure
that pits the rebel Day against the Republic's
favorite agent, June. Day lives on the streets of
this parched land as he works to solve the mystery
behind the deadly virus plaguing his city, and more
importantly his brother. But The Republic has much
to protect, and feels threatened by Day and the
following he is attracting. June, then, is sent in
undercover to trap Day into becoming arrested. But
what neither of them anticipate is the love that
starts to blossom between them.
This gripping novel is a page turner all the way up
to its shocking conclusion. (Book
Talk Author: Kristin Roper, Colorado
Blue Spruce Award, 2015)
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