Title: BirthmarkedAuthor: Caragh O'Brien
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Date: March 30th 2010
After climate change, on the north shore of Unlake Superior, a dystopian world is divided between those who live inside the wall, and those, like sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone, who live outside. It’s Gaia’s job to “advance” a quota of infants from poverty into the walled Enclave, until the night one agonized mother objects, and Gaia’s parents are arrested. Badly scarred since childhood, Gaia is a strong, resourceful loner who begins to question her society. As Gaia’s efforts to save her parents take her within the wall, she herself is arrested and imprisoned.
Fraught with difficult moral choices and rich with intricate layers of codes, BIRTHMARKED explores a colorful, cruel, eerily familiar world where one girl can make all the difference, and a real hero makes her own moral code.
This book sounds awesome. Also dystopian novels are awesome. The cover is so pretty too.
This sounds SOOO good...great pick!
ReplyDeleteI'm reading this one right now :D it's pretty good. I'm having a contest for it soon :)
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