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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2012 | Grades 5-up
Gr 9 Up—O'Brien's follow-up to Birthmarked (Roaring Brook, 2010) begins with Gaia Stone at a lonely oasis in the wasteland, far from the Enclave she escaped. She and her infant sister, Maya, are rescued by Peter, a young man from a settlement called Sylum, which, in its own way, is as strange and harsh a place as the Enclave. Women are only one tenth of the population but they rule over the men, many of whom are sterile. Any physical contact between an unmarried man and a woman is considered attempted rape, and the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
Apprentice midwife Gaia (<i>Birthmarked</i>) escaped the totalitarian Enclave with her baby sister Maya. Now living in female-ruled Sylu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on February 1, 2012
Prized will engage readers with the same combination of science, code-cracking, and romance that made Birthmarked, the first book in this planned trilogy, a success. Gaia’s scar marked her as imperfect in the Enclave. In Sylum, where men outnumber women ten to one, she’s suddenly an object of desir...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
