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The present: Icie is a typical high school teenager - until disaster strikes and her parents send her to find shelter inside a mountain near Las Vegas.
The future: Beckett lives on The Mountain - a sacred place devoted to the Great I AM. He must soon become the leader of his people. But when Beckett is forced to break one of the sacred laws and the Great I AM does not strike him down, Beckett finds himself starting to question his beliefs.
As Beckett investigates The Mountain's history, Icie's story is revealed - along with the terrifying truth of what lies at the heart of The Mountain.
A compelling and thought-provoking novel that explores the eternally popular YA themes of identity, love and friendship.
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Sara Grant was born in a small town in Indiana. She graduated from Indiana University and has a master's degree in creative and life writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives in London with her British husband and is also the author of Dark Parties. Sara's website is www.sara-grant.com
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Postapocalyptic survival fiction gets a unique treatment in Grant’s thoughtful thriller. Seventeen-year-old Icie’s normal life ends with a 911 text from her parents, high-level government employees. Alerted to an imminent bioterrorist attack, the family heads for an abandoned bunker in the Nevada mountains, intended to be a nuclear waste repository before the project was cut—but they are split up along the way. With a backpack of supplies, $10,000, and a crude map, Icie and three teens she meets find the bunker, but survival at any cost quickly begins to take its toll. Icie’s story is only half the tale: generations later, a mountain community worship a deity called the I AM, and fear venomous terrorists, whom they believe have taken residence in a neighboring area. The two stories converge as both groups discover the mountain’s dangerous secret. The terror and pathos of Icie’s story is most immediately compelling, but discovering how her actions form the basis of this future society makes for a clever, intriguing look at how meaning evolves over generations. This is a smart, scary novel. Grades 9-12. --Krista Hutley
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- PublisherOrion Children's Books
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1780621698
- ISBN 13 9781780621692
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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