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A little more about the book:
Behind the white-washed walls of the Compound, life was simple. Follow the rules, live in the Light, and all would be well.
But on the Outside things are different. There are colors and toys and food. There are Liars and Darkness. And twelve-year-old Zylynn now faces a difficult decision—to stay here with the enemy, or find her way back to the Light. And neither may be what they seem.
And a very special excerpt, just for you:
The glass doors slide open like magic and we step
onto the bright white tile. I feel my pulse slow inside my skin. There are
people everywhere, walking in all directions between the piles and piles of
stuff in front of us. The people are pushing little carts, talking constantly
like they don’t know where they’re going or what they’re doing or how they’re
supposed to use their voices. There are some white walkways lining the place
like guiding paths and between them there’s nothing but stuff. Rows and piles,
mountains and pits, shelves and buckets of stuff. Who needs all this stuff? Who
are all these people?
I stand still as a stone with the artificial air freezing my skin
and the sliding doors swishing back and forth behind me as more people push
past me into this strange building. My eyes go wide, sucking it all in: the
colors, the sounds, the smells.
It’s overwhelming, but I’m calm. More calm than I’ve been in a
while. Because over my head, miles and miles away, is a ceiling. And running
along the ceiling, all over it from front to back and right to left and up to
down are the brightest lights they have anywhere in Outside.
I stay like that for so long—enjoying the lights in my
pupils—that I don’t notice that Charita has left my side until she appears next
to it again. She’s pushing one of the red carts herself now, like she’s one of
the rest of these people.
They have dead eyes and faces that zoom this way and that,
looking, looking, looking at the stuff but thinking about nothing.
“Who are all these people?” I ask her before it’s too late to
stop my voice from coming. But that’s OK, actually, because I want to know. Are
they from related compounds somehow? Do they say the same strange prayers that
Elsie and Junior and Jakey say every night? How do they all know to come here,
to Target? How do they all know what to do when they’re here?
Charita says, “The shoppers?”
She says it with a question mark on the end, even though it’s an
answer. I will never understand things here.
This cover is awesome and the book sounds great!
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