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For Darkness Shows the Stars
By PETERFREUND, Diana
- ISBN
- 978-0-06-200614-1 978-0-06-211437-2
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Balzer & Bray
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Starred Review on June 1, 2012 | Grades 5-up
Gr 7 Up—Told partially through secret letters between forbidden childhood friends, this novel is a postapocalyptic retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion that will be a hit with fans of sci-fi romances such as Nancy Farmer's The House of the Scorpion (S & S, 2002) and Catherine Fisher's Incarceron (Dial, 2010). Four years earlier, 18-year-old Elliot North, a member of the Luddite ruling class, refused to run away with Kai, one of her family's servants and her first love. In the years since his departure...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
Drawing heavily from Jane Austen's <i>Persuasion</i>, this story features a post-apocalyptic society consisting of the Reduced; the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
