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Bringing Reuben Home
Bringing Reuben Home by Glenda Millard
A thrilling young adult fiction which will have every reader on the edge of their seat. Set in the future in a domed city, two young friends set out to grant an old man his freedom and return him home to his beloved old city. The adventures they have, the dangers they face and the courage they summon sets the cracking pace of this intriguing book.
This is a passionate, futuristic story about two teenage friends who embark on a journey they never dreamed possible. Cinnabar and her best friend Judah live in New Carradon, a domed city in which children are born under strict genetic laws and the elderly have to celebrate their own cessation (euthanasia) when they are no longer deemed necessary to the population.
When Cinnabar's grandfather Reuben wants to return to the ruins of the old city to live out the rest of his natural life, rather than succumb to his imminent cessation, she plots his escape with Judah. What follows is a thrilling adventure that leads them to the unknown world outside New Carradon, and to people whose sense of humanity and love is so unlike what Cinnabar and Judah are used to in their modern world. What they uncover and what is revealed to them will change their lives forever.
Call Number: CPS 8B5
ISBN: 9780733313899
Publication Date: 2004
Uglies
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever
Call Number: CPS 8A7
ISBN: 9780689865381
Publication Date: 2005
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A thrilling young adult fiction which will have every reader on the edge of their seat. Set in the future in a domed city, two young friends set out to grant an old man his freedom and return him home to his beloved old city. The adventures they have, the dangers they face and the courage they summon sets the cracking pace of this intriguing book.
This is a passionate, futuristic story about two teenage friends who embark on a journey they never dreamed possible. Cinnabar and her best friend Judah live in New Carradon, a domed city in which children are born under strict genetic laws and the elderly have to celebrate their own cessation (euthanasia) when they are no longer deemed necessary to the population.
When Cinnabar's grandfather Reuben wants to return to the ruins of the old city to live out the rest of his natural life, rather than succumb to his imminent cessation, she plots his escape with Judah. What follows is a thrilling adventure that leads them to the unknown world outside New Carradon, and to people whose sense of humanity and love is so unlike what Cinnabar and Judah are used to in their modern world. What they uncover and what is revealed to them will change their lives forever.
Uglies by
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever