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Gr 9 Up –This sequel to Unwind (S & S, 2007) is well worth the wait. Connor is now the leader of the Graveyard, a place in Arizona that serves as a refuge for “troubled” teens who escaped unwinding, a process where individuals are “divided” for their body parts. Risa is confined to a wheelchair and works as the group’s medical authority. She can only watch helplessly as Connor drifts further and further away from her. Lev lives under house arrest and ministers to jailed yo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In this long-awaited sequel to Unwind (rev. 3/08), the complex feelings about unwinding (the legal policy of harvesting the body parts of unwanted or "bad" teens for transplant purposes) continues on all sides. Connor, Lev, and Risa are still caught up in the fray, though they each imagine what life would be like if they weren’t, in their different ways, viewed as representations of rebel causes but rather as ordinary teens. No one escapes unscathed in a worl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More