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In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom.
2) Breeder
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English
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"Will Meadows is a seemingly average fifteen-year-old Westie, who lives and works in Zone F, the run-down outermost ring of the Corporation. In the future state of the Corp, a person's value comes down to productivity: the right actions win units, the wrong ones lose them. If Will is unlucky and goes into unit debt, there's only one place to go: the Rator. But for Zone F Breeders, things are much worse--they're born into debt and can only accrue units...
3) The auction
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"In society where babies have become a source of government income, laws designed to push the birth rate are enacted that strip women of the most basic of human rights: The right to choose when to have a child, the right to choose who to marry, and the right to raise her biological child." --back cover.
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Series
Rule of one volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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Publisher Annotation: In the near-future United States, a one-child policy is ruthlessly enforced. Everyone follows the Rule of One. But Ava Goodwin, daughter of the head of the Texas Family Planning Division, has a secret--one her mother died to keep and her father has helped to hide for her entire life. She has an identical twin sister, Mira. For eighteen years Ava and Mira have lived as one, trading places day after day, maintaining an interchangeable...
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Series
The child thief volume 01
Language
English
Description
America in 2105 is beset with mass inequality, poverty and increasingly large numbers of the poor. A fractured America ushers in an authoritarian government that promises to solve these problems by redistributing children born to the poor to be adopted by the rich. Robin, a single teen mother, fell within the scope of the scheme and lost her baby two years ago. A life of factory work doesn't provide much hope until she stumbles upon a group of misfits...
6) Deep shadows
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Series
Child thief volume 02
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After the night's shocking events, Robin, Jace, and their team find themselves thrust into a race for their lives. Robin never could have imagined that things would go so wrong. Never could have dreamed that they would find what they found within that innocuous-looking building. And now it is too late: they have seen what they have seen, and there is no time to talk. No time to even think. Not with the caliber of people who are now on their trail....
7) Thin lines
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Series
Child thief volume 03
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"It sounded to me like they've been watching you--watching us--for a while." A decades-old conspiracy. A group of mysterious allies. An entire nation out for their blood. The Compliance Authority does not take kindly to dissidents. Particularly dissidents who have managed to escape their grasp, not once, but twice. Things are about to get a lot more dangerous for Robin, Jace, and their team. Making it all the more urgent to figure out what, if anything,...
8) Zero hour
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Series
The Child Thief volume 6
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Everything Robin has fought for hangs in the balance, and she no longer knows who to trust. But when hiding is no longer an option for Little John, Nathan must put his decades-old plan into motion... whether they are prepared or not.
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