The Forsaken (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781442432666)

Choose a tribe. Watch your back. And don't stop running.

Filled with thrilling adventure and romance, The Forsaken is praised by EntertainmentWeekly.com as "a fast-paced novel that] you'll get sucked into. You just can't seem to put it] down."

As an obedient orphan of the U.N.A. (the super-country that was once Mexico, the US, and Canada), Alenna learned at an early age to blend in and be quiet--having your parents taken by the police will do that to a girl. But Alenna can't help standing out when she fails a test that all sixteen-year-olds have to take: The test says she has a high capacity for brutal violence, and so she is sent to the wheel, an island where all would-be criminals end up.

The life expectancy of prisoners on the wheel is just two years, but with dirty, violent, and chaotic conditions, the time seems a lot longer as Alenna is forced to deal with civil wars for land ownership and machines that snatch kids out of their makeshift homes. Desperate, she and a charismatic warrior named Liam concoct a potentially fatal plan to flee the island. Survival may seem impossible, but Alenna is determined to achieve it anyway.

Author: Lisa M. Stasse
ISBN-10: 1442432667
ISBN-13: 9781442432666
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 06/04/2013
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.10d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 154941 / Forsaken