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Booktalk: Just a month before her 18th birthday, Mare Barrow is desperate. She has never done well in school and she can't find a job. The only thing Mare excels at is being a pickpocket. Without a job, her only choice is to be conscripted into the army on her birthday. Her three older brothers have already been taken by the soldiers and will probably never return home. That's just what happens to Reds - people with red blood instead of silver. Silvers have all the power: they are wealthy, they don't have to fight in the army, and they have powers, special gifts that make them better than Reds. At least, that's what they believe and teach.
When a chance accident shocks Mare into using powers she never knew she had in front of the most powerful Silvers in the kingdom, Mare finds herself living in the palace disguised as a long-lost Silver princess. The world of the Silvers holds dangers that Mare never imagined could exist. Will trying to navigate a world where "anyone can betray anyone" destroy Mare? Can she figure out who to trust? Is anyone or anything safe in a world where power is all that matters?
"I've done this a thousand times before, watching the crowd like a wolf does a flock of sheep. Looking for the weak, the slow, the foolish. Only now, I am very much the prey." (p. 33)
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- This book has not won any awards (yet!).
What teens are saying:
"I really enjoyed this book! It was fast paced and kept my interest throughout the whole story. I like that the main character had to wrestle with the pros and cons of changing the unjust society she lived in. Exploring that side of things was new and interesting." ~ Mardi B., age 18
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