Synopses & Reviews
School has become a prison.
No one knows why.
There's no way to stop it.
Review
"[E]xcellent....The characters are realistically drawn, and their escalating loss of freedom is told in a believable way. Vivid and memorable, it moves at a fast pace despite its length....Highly recommended." Sherrie Williams, VOYA
Review
"The story works, even if in the end it seems closer to SF than to realistic fiction well, a Ray Bradbury kind of SF....Of course, [controlling adolescents] is a theme with enormous appeal for most YAs." Claire Rosser, KLIATT
About the Author
Francine Prose is the author of twenty works of fiction. Her novel A Changed Man won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Blue Angel was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent works of nonfiction include the highly acclaimed Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director's Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent book is Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932. She lives in New York City.