Race the night / by Kirsten Hubbard.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Los Angeles ; New York : Disney-Hyperion, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: 275 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781484708347
- 1484708342
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | Hubbard Kirsten | Available | 33111008570786 | ||||
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | Hubbard Kirsten | Available | 33111008503530 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"[A] moving tale of resilience, hope, and the meaning of family." -- School Library Journal (starred review)
Without you, there'd be no hope for the world. Because you are the whole world.
That's what Teacher says, and twelve-year-old Eider knows she's right. The world ended long ago, and the desert ranch is the only thing left. Still, Eider's thoughts keep wandering Beyond the fence. Beyond the pleated earth and scraggly brush and tedious daily lessons. Eider can't help wishing for something more-like the stories in the fairytale book she hides in the storage room. Like the secret papers she collects from the world Before. Like her little sister who never really existed.
When Teacher announces a new kind of lesson, Eider and the other kids are confused. Teacher says she needs to test their specialness-the reason they were saved from the end of the world. But seeing in the dark? Reading minds? As the kids struggle to complete Teacher's challenges, they also start to ask questions. Questions about their life on the desert ranch, about Before and Beyond, about everything Teacher has told them. But the thing about questions-they can be dangerous.
This moving novel-equal parts hope and heartbreak-traces one girl's journey for truth and meaning, from the smallest slip of paper to the deepest understanding of family. The world may have ended for the kids of the desert ranch . . . but that's only the beginning.
"Eider might be living at the end of the world, but that won't stop her from searching for the things that could make it all begin again--especially after Teacher announces a mysterious new type of lessons that turn her life upside down"-- Provided by publisher.