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Bow, Erin.
Subjects
CLA Young Adult Book Award.
Children of heads of state -- Fiction.
Insurgency -- Fiction.
Hostages -- Fiction.
Artificial intelligence -- Fiction.
Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction.
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Bow, Erin.
CLA Young Adult Book Award.
Children of heads of state -- Fiction.
Insurgency -- Fiction.
Hostages -- Fiction.
Artificial intelligence -- Fiction.
Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction.
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The scorpion rules / Erin Bow.
by
Bow, Erin.
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2015.
Call #:
FICTION
BOW
Subjects
CLA Young Adult Book Award.
Children
of
heads
of
state
--
Fiction
.
Insurgency
--
Fiction
.
Hostages
--
Fiction
.
Artificial intelligence
--
Fiction
.
Imaginary wars and battles
--
Fiction
.
Series
Bow, Erin. Prisoners of peace ; book 1.
ISBN:
9781481442718 (hc.)
1481442716 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
374 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
The teenage princess of a future-world Canadian superpower, where royal
children
are held hostage to keep their countries from waging war, falls in love with an American prince who rebels against the brutal rules governing their existences.
"In the future, the UN has brought back an ancient way to keep the peace. The
children
of world leaders are held hostage—if a war begins, they pay with their lives. Greta is the Crown Princess of the Pan Polar Confederacy, a superpower formed of modern-day Canada. She is also a Child of Peace, a hostage held by the de facto ruler of the world, the great Artificial Intelligence, Talis. The hostages are Talis’s strategy to keep the peace: if her country enters a war, Greta dies. The system has worked for centuries. Parents don’t want to see their
children
murdered. Greta will be free if she can make it to her eighteenth birthday. Until then she is prepared to die with dignity, if necessary. But everything changes when Elian arrives at the Precepture. He’s a hostage from a new American alliance, and he defies the machines that control every part of their lives—and is severely punished for it. Greta is furious that Elian has disrupted their quiet, structured world. But slowly, his rebellion opens her eyes to the brutality of the rules they live under, and to the subtle resistance of her companions. And Greta discovers her own quiet power. Then Elian’s country declares war on Greta’s and invades the prefecture, taking the hostages hostage. Now the great Talis is furious, and coming himself to mete out punishment. Which surely means that Greta and Elian will be killed...unless Greta can think of a way to save them."--From publisher.
Audience:
Ages: 13-up. Kirkus Reviews.
Awards:
Winner of the CLA Young Adult Book Award, 2016.
Genre:
Dystopian
fiction
.
Science
fiction
.
Canadian
fiction
.
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Young Adult Fiction
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Young Adult Fiction
FICTION BOW
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Young Adult Fiction
FICTION BOW
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