![]() ![]() Genres: Science Fiction, Dystopia, Young Adult, Romance, Fantasy, Adventure, Apocalyptic, Post Apocalyptic, Survival, Teen My Edition: A Paperback from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, published in 2012, with 375 pages. Survival may seem impossible, but Alenna is determined to achieve it anyway. Desperate, she and the other prisoners concoct a potentially fatal plan to flee the island. ![]() 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. ![]() But Alenna can’t help but stand 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 super-country that was once Mexico, the U.S., 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. ![]()
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