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Living Hell
By Jinks, Catherine
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-15206-193-7
- Publisher
- Harcourt
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2010
Gr 7-Up Cheney, 17, has spent his entire life aboard a spaceship programmed to sustain life and find a habitable planet for its hundreds of human passengers. All has been well for decadesuntil the "Plexus" hits a radiation wave. At first, it seems to have passed through unscathed. But crew members soon b...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2010
Jinks tends to build books around startlingly unique reinterpretations of familiar tropes (The Reformed Vampire Support Group, rev. 5/09); here she examines space travel gone wrong. Seventeen-year-old Cheney has lived his entire life aboard the spaceship Plexus, still, after forty-six years in space, in search of a habitable planet. After the Plexus passes through an unidentified radiation wave (later dubbed "the goddamn universal life force" and left at that), Cheney's serene and somewhat sterile existence becomes a desperate...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2010
Seventeen-year-old Cheney has lived his entire life aboard the spaceship <i>Plexus</i>, which has been searching for a habitable planet for forty-six ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
