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Dark Days

by Kate Ormand
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In a dark future world, a teenager fights to save herself and her neighbors from a government that wants to destroy them all . . .

Humankind's careless treatment of the planet has finally resulted in the death of nearly every living creature on Earth. The people who remain have been herded together into identical living "sectors" surrounded by impenetrable steel, and they're forbidden to leave. Life is grim, but it goes on . . . until the new order decides to start the world over again.

Sixteen-year-old Sia knows she has only fifteen days left to live. She's seen what has happened in other sectors. First the government removes the elite few whom it has chosen to inhabit their new society. Then a cyborg army is sent in to annihilate the rest of the population. And Sia's sector is next.

Her father has virtually vanished. Her mother goes through these last days living in a haze of cheerless acceptance. Her best friend waits foolishly for a miracle. But Sia is determined to experience some of the small things she's missed in her short life before the giant clock in the square ticks down to zero.

Then Mace appears, a proud, dangerous boy with secrets that could change the world. And suddenly, there's a dim light in the darkness, beckoning to Sia with the forbidden promise of rebellion . . . and hope.

Fans of Suzanne Collins, Veronica Roth, and Pittacus Lore will enjoy this "chilling and all too plausible" story of a young woman persevering in the face of danger, and a terrifying future landscape that makes the worlds of Divergent and The Maze Runner seem like Disneyland (Emma Pass, author of ACID).

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    June 3, 2014

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      • ISBN: 9781628739497
      • File size: 1294 KB

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      • ISBN: 9781628739497
      • File size: 1294 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • School Library Journal

      May 1, 2014

      Gr 9 Up-In a dystopian future, 16-year-old Sia awakes with just fifteen days to live before her sector is destroyed and she is murdered by a cyborg army, along with everyone she knows. After climate change took out most of the living creatures on Earth, the remaining people were rounded up into sectors to keep them safe. Eventually, walls were built around the sectors, and a leader with a desire to create a New World emerged. This New World would be inhabited by only the best people, and everyone else would be destroyed. Sia's sector is dominated by constant reports of the horrors to come via television, and a digital clock with red numbers that counts down the days left to live, so she creates a short, four-item bucket list: swim in the lake, spend time with her parents, kiss a boy, and fall in love. In addition to checking off items on her list, the protagonist also participates in a rebellion against the cyborg army. With a half-baked plan for rebellion, a weak romance, and a countdown clock as a poorly disguised plot device, readers may not get lost in Sia's world. This title does not stand up to others in the genre, but if your teens absolutely can't get enough views of our potential future on this planet, consider making a place for this.-Heather Acerro, Rochester Public Library, MN

      Copyright 2014 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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