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YOU ARE WRONG AND YOU NEED TO READ THIS.Īuthors say: "This is fearfully superlative storytelling.

You think you know exactly what this book is, and how it's going to play out. a knockout dystopian novels that readers will devour with their hearts in their months." School Library Journal (starred review) ​ "Bow continually yanks the rug out from under readers, defying expectations as she crafts a masterly story with a diverse cast, shocking twists, and gut-punching emotional moments." Publishers' Weekly (starred review) "If you haven't read Erin Bow, start now." Quill & Quire (starred review) Recommended by Booklist, Hornbook, and VOYA

"Slyly humorous, starkly thought-provoking, passionate and compassionate - and impeccably written to boot: not to be missed." Kirkus (starred review) "Masterful, electric prose and wit. The Scorpion Rules made the best of 2015 lists at Barnes & Nobel, Chapters/Indigo, The CBC, and The Globe & Mail.Shortlisted for the Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award.Shortlisted for the White Pine (the Ontario Public Library Association's teen readers' choice award).Shortlisted for the Amy Mathers Award for best novel for teens published in Canada.On the American Library Association YALSA Quick Picks List.Winner of the Monica Hughes Award for best book of science fiction or fantasy published in Canada​.Book of the Year for Young Adults, from the Canadian Library Association.A game that will end up killing them both-unless she can find a way to break all the rules. And he opens Greta’s eyes to the brutality of the system they live under-and to her own power.Īs Greta and Elián watch their nations tip closer to war, Greta becomes a target in a new kind of game. Elián is a boy who refuses to play by the rules, a boy who defies everything Greta has ever been taught. But everything changes when a new hostage arrives. Like them, she is prepared to die with dignity, if she must. Like them, she is taught to obey the machines that control their lives. Until then she lives in the Precepture school with the daughters and sons of the world’s leaders. Greta will be free if she can survive until her eighteenth birthday. This is how the game is played: if you want to rule, you must give one of your children as a hostage. Greta is a duchess and crown princess-and a hostage to peace. And really, if the odd princess has a hard day, is that too much to ask? The world is at peace, said the Utterances.