Malley, Gemma The Declaration, 300 p. Bloomsbury, 2007.
MS, HS - ESSENTIAL
In a future world, people can live forever and children have been declared illegal, unless you opt out of immortality. Surplus Anna has been raised in a Surplus home for as long as she can remember. Her goal is to do what she is told and graduate to a job working for a Legal. Then Peter arrives - calling her Anna Covey and telling her that he knows her parents. But surpluses can't have parents who love them - otherwise they wouldn't be surplus. Now Anna is questioning everything she ever learned about her place in the world.
Read the sequel to this book first and didn't lose anything for the experience. Malley has added a great book to future fiction genre, with a great dig at our perpetual search for eternal youth.
Cindy, Library-Teacher.
MS, HS - ESSENTIAL
In a future world, people can live forever and children have been declared illegal, unless you opt out of immortality. Surplus Anna has been raised in a Surplus home for as long as she can remember. Her goal is to do what she is told and graduate to a job working for a Legal. Then Peter arrives - calling her Anna Covey and telling her that he knows her parents. But surpluses can't have parents who love them - otherwise they wouldn't be surplus. Now Anna is questioning everything she ever learned about her place in the world.
Read the sequel to this book first and didn't lose anything for the experience. Malley has added a great book to future fiction genre, with a great dig at our perpetual search for eternal youth.
Cindy, Library-Teacher.
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