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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2011 | Grades 5-up
Gr 9 Up—In the near future, genetic engineering has given a single generation freedom from all physical ills and a long life, but something claims the lives of successive generations as women reach 20 and men reach 25. Many of the first generation and their offspring are fabulously wealthy, but the rest of the population struggles for a living. Rhine Ellery is 16 when she is kidnapped from Manhattan and selected as a bride for Linden Ashby, along with 18-year-old Jenna and 13-year-old Cecily. Jenna seems to be resigned to her exi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
In a future where men die by age twenty-five and women by age twenty, Rhine is kidnapped and sold as an unwilling wife/breeder to w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
