Spare
eBook - 2020
How do you survive when your only purpose is to give your live to others . . . bit by bit? In the derelict house next door to a building site, Dawn lives with a young woman who says to call her Mum.Dawn loves the hole in the roof, where she can always see blue. She loves her book of birds and she loves Mrs Goring, the old lady who lives on the ground floor.But when Dawn's medicine runs out and Mrs Goring disappears, Dawn begins see the world as it really is.Next door, the new facility to hold children like her is almost finished. But Dawn wants to live.Can she escape, find Mrs Goring and the truth about her family before the doors to the Sparehouse open? A dystopian mystery for older middle grade to young adult readers set in a world w...here one huge corporation sells everything, and in Britain, the NHS is a distant memory. The threat is grim, but hope is alive and well.Is that enough to save a generation of 'spares' like Dawn?
- Subjects
- Published
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[United States] :
J.M. Carr
2020.
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Main Author
- Corporate Author
- Online Access
- Instantly available on hoopla.
Cover image - Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- ISBN
- 9781916189423
- Access
- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
