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first time reading a contemporary YA novel about the decimation of a population brought on by plague? inflate rating by one star.
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move ahead four squares for premise and setting on a small island off the coast of canada. contained environment is interesting, although somewhat reminiscent of plague 99 ...more
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first time reading a contemporary YA novel about the decimation of a population brought on by plague? inflate rating by one star.
fist time reading a novel? inflate rating by two stars. and welcome.
move ahead four squares for premise and setting on a small island off the coast of canada. contained environment is interesting, although somewhat reminiscent of plague 99 ...more
Sixteen-year-old Kaelyn knows it's time to start facing her fears and tackling her insecurities when she lets the boy who was once her best friend leave for school abroad without even saying good-bye. But as an unfamiliar virus sweeps through their small island community, suddenly she's got a lot of good reasons to be scared. The doctors have no effective treatment, and patients are starting to die.
Then the government quarantines the island in an attempt to contain the epidemic, and Kaelyn and ...more
Then the government quarantines the island in an attempt to contain the epidemic, and Kaelyn and ...more
In letters to her friend Leo who left for school on the mainland, Kaelyn describes a strange illness moving through her island community. It starts with a fever, then itching, then manic behavior. Even though her father works at the hospital, they don't know how to cure it, and no one is safe. As more fall ill and die and the island is quarantined, Kaelyn has to join forces with people she never would have called friends before.
This is a book I had requested as an ARC from Netgalley back in 2012 ...more
This is a book I had requested as an ARC from Netgalley back in 2012 ...more
Not a dystopia, but a rather realistic look at what could happen if a virulent virus strikes - just think of the hysteria surrounding MRSA, SARS, the H1N1 virus, etc.. The unrealistic part is that this is set on an island just off Canada, and thus easy to quarantine.
Kaelyn is a typical teen, except that she's living on a small island (one of the Summer People/Year-Rounders type of island). Her peers aren't quite sure what to make of her, as she's recently returned from several years in Toronto, ...more
Kaelyn is a typical teen, except that she's living on a small island (one of the Summer People/Year-Rounders type of island). Her peers aren't quite sure what to make of her, as she's recently returned from several years in Toronto, ...more
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