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Genre/Form: | Fiction Juvenile works Juvenile fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lisa McMann |
ISBN: | 9781451766684 1451766688 9781442407695 1442407697 |
OCLC Number: | 868354550 |
Notes: | Reprint. Originally published: 2011. |
Awards: | Winner of Nutmeg Book Award (Intermediate) 2015 Short-listed for Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award 2013 Short-listed for Grand Canyon Reader Award (Tween) 2015 Short-listed for Massachusetts Children's Book Award 2013 |
Description: | 390 pages ; 20 cm |
Responsibility: | Lisa McMann. |
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The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter in this middle-grade departure from McMann's string of paranormal mysteries with romance for young adults. On the day of Purge in totalitarian Quill, which is run by the High Priest Justine, 13-year-olds learn if they are deemed Wanted to attend the university, Necessary to tend the land or Unwanted and purged by execution. Without a good-bye from his Wanted identical brother Aaron, Alex Stowe and the other Unwanteds travel to the Death Farm. Instead of death, they meet the lush and magical world of Artime, kept secret from Justine by mage Marcus Today. In a third-person narration characterized by even pacing and whimsical inventions, Alex and his peers learn that their creativity threatened Justine's power. Surrounded by talking blackboards, transporting tubes and such fantastical creatures as an octagator (with the head of an alligator and body of an octopus) for instructors, the teens hone their drawing, music and acting skills while also wielding paintbrushes for invisibility spells and iambic pentameter to stun attackers during Magical Warrior Training, in preparation for battle against the Quillitary. As the youths explore fear, responsibility and free thinking, their spells may be used sooner than they think when Alex's twin bond is tested and rivals vie for Aaron's new position in Justine's government. Blending elements from two popular genres, this is sure to be a double hit. - "KIRKUS, "April 15, 2011 "Reading Lisa McMann's THE UNWANTEDS was like discovering a brilliant, lost children's classic--except it's never going to be lost, because readers will never, ever forget the magic they'll experience in its pages." --James A. Owen, author and Illustrator of HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS "Imagination runs wild in this creative adventure." --#1 "New York Times" bestselling author Brandon Mull Read more...

