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Ones Were Meant to Find

by Joan He
Ones Were Meant to Find

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ISBN10: 1250258561
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Perfect for fans of Rick Yancey and Marie Lu, Joan He's The Ones We're Meant to Find is a sci-fi fantasy with mind-blowing twists--ready to burst onto the YA scene...

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Perfect for fans of Rick Yancey and Marie Lu, this sci-fi fantasy with mind-blowing twists is ready to burst onto the YA scene.
Cee awoke on an abandoned island three years ago. With no idea of how she was marooned, she only has a rickety house, an old android, and a single memory: she has a sister, and Cee needs to find her.

STEM prodigy Kasey wants escape from the science and home she once trusted. The Metropolis--Earth's last unpolluted place--is meant to be sanctuary for those commited to planetary protection, but it's populated by people willing to do anything for refuge, even lie. These lies killed Kasey's sister, who died after swimming in a contaminated sea.

When Kasey receives an encrypted file, she's faced with the possibility that her sister might be alive. As she retraces her sister's final days, she'll decide if she's ready to use science to help humanity, even though it failed the person who mattered most.

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Perfect for fans of Rick Yancey and Marie Lu, The Ones We're Meant to Find is a sci-fi fantasy with mind-blowing twists, ready to burst onto the YA scene, from the critically-acclaimed Descendant of the Crane author, Joan He.
Cee awoke on an abandoned island three years ago. With no idea of how she was marooned, she only has a rickety house, an old android, and a single memory: she has a sister, and Cee needs to find her.

STEM prodigy Kasey wants escape from the science and home she once trusted. The Metropolis--Earth's last unpolluted place--is meant to be sanctuary for those commited to planetary protection, but it's populated by people willing to do anything for refuge, even lie. Now, she'll have to decide if she's ready to use science to help humanity, even though it failed the people who mattered most.

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A New York Times Bestseller, perfect for fans of Marie Lu and E. Lockhart, The Ones We're Meant to Find is a gripping and heartfelt YA sci-fi with mind-blowing twists. Set in a climate-ravaged future, Joan He's beautifully written novel follows the story of two sisters, separated by an ocean, desperately trying to find each other.

Cee has been trapped on an abandoned island for three years and seventeen days without any recollection of how she arrived, or memories from her life prior. All she knows is that somewhere out there, beyond the horizon, she has a sister named Kay. Determined to find her, Cee devotes her days to building a boat from junk parts scavenged inland, doing everything in her power to survive until the day she gets off the island and reunites with her sister.

In a world apart, 16-year-old STEM prodigy Kasey Mizuhara is also living a life of isolation. The eco-city she calls home is one of eight levitating around the world, built for people who protected the planet--and now need protecting from it. With natural disasters on the rise due to climate change, eco-cities provide clean air, water, and shelter. Their residents, in exchange, must spend at least a third of their time in stasis pods, conducting business virtually whenever possible to reduce their environmental footprint. While Kasey, an introvert and loner, doesn't mind the lifestyle, her sister Celia hated it. Popular and lovable, Celia much preferred the outside world. But no one could have predicted that Celia would take a boat out to sea, never to return.

Now it's been three months since Celia's disappearance, and Kasey has given up hope. Logic says that her sister must be dead. But as the public decries her stance, she starts to second guess herself and decides to retrace Celia's last steps. Where they'll lead her, she does not know. Her sister was full of secrets. But Kasey has a secret of her own.


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lurkykitty , May 10, 2021 (view all comments by lurkykitty)
The Ones We're Meant to Find is a beautifully written story told from the perspective of two sisters living on a dystopian near future earth ravaged by natural disasters caused by climate change and pollution. Cee woke up naked and alone on an abandoned island three years ago, her only companion a bot called U-me. She is compelled to cross the sea to find her sister Kay, but suffers from amnesia. She has been struggling to survive and build a boat. Kasey lives in a sky city above the ocean which has been designed to minimize environmental impact and carbon output. Her sister Celia disappeared several months ago and is presumed dead. Kasey struggles to relate to other people (she perhaps has ASD) but is a scientific genius. She has been investigating the disappearance of her sister. The reader is kept in the dark initially and has the feeling that something isn't adding up. There is an enormous twist that explains everything. The Ones We're Meant to Find is an emotional, lyrical thought provoking book with enormous depth. It raises questions about the price future generations will pay for our irresponsibility and carelessness, about what makes life meaningful and worth living, about what should be rights and what should be freedoms. This haunting story will stay with you long after you close the cover.

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Mallory , May 04, 2021 (view all comments by Mallory)
I rounded up my rating from 4.5 to 5 stars. This story would have made a perfect Black Mirror episode. I think the creepiest part of this story is that at it’s core it’s a direction we’re going in. The world is facing increasingly disastrous natural disasters because of generations of pollution and abusing the planet. There are minimal solutions like sky cities but they came too late and they’re going to fail. That’s the setting of this story, but the main story is about two sisters. Cee woke up naked with no memory on an abandoned island and for three years she has been trying to cross the sea to find her sister Kay. With only a bot (U-me is an awesome character) and minimal supplies she works to rebuild a boat. The second perspective is Kasey who is missing her sister who disappeared a few months prior and is now presumed dead. Kasey doesn’t really understand people well but she does understand science, but she has been forbidden from engaging in science due to a felony she committed as a child. This book headed in the direction I expected but didn’t pass all the sights I was expecting. It was a beautiful blend of science fiction, fantasy, and dystopian young adult fiction.

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ISBN:
9781250258564
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
05/04/2021
Publisher:
ROARING BROOK PRESS
Pages:
384
Height:
1.40IN
Width:
5.50IN
Age Range:
13 to 17
Grade Range:
8 to 12
Author:
Joan He

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