The Worlds We Make

April 1, 2014

Gr 7 Up-Kaelyn is on the run again-this time not only from the devastating virus, but from a group of survivors called The Wardens who are determined to steal the vaccine. How much is Kaelyn willing to sacrifice in order to survive?

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June 1, 2014
Grades 9-12 The conclusion to the Fallen World trilogy serves as an extension to the second volume, The Lives We Lost (2013), with Kaelyn and her ragtag gang on the run from the Wardens, as they cross a disease-ravaged America on their way to the CDC in Atlanta, where a woman claims to be able to reproduce the cure sample that Kaelyn is carrying. The impediments are what you would expectsickness, injury, death, and sacrificebut Crewe gives the book a late shot in the arm (so to speak) by offering up surprisingly complicated and nuanced portrayals of both the Wardens and CDC members. They, like everyone else in Crewe's grim dystopia, are neither good nor evil. Just fighting to survive.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

July 1, 2014
In this trilogy-ender, Kae and her friends race from Toronto to the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. She learns that the only hope for saving humanity from a "so-called friendly flu" virus lies not in evading the Wardens but in learning to trust herself. Crewe creates a believable post-apocalyptic world with appeal to a wide audience.

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