Fearless

By Lott, Tim

Publishers Summary:
A Whitbread Award-winning novelist tells a chilling dystopian tale about a heroic girl prepared to risk everything in the pursuit of justice.In the not-too-distant future, the world is safe from terrorists, the streets are clean, and girls labeled "juvies" or "mindcrips" have been hidden away behind the smartly painted exterior of the City Community Faith School. Their birth names are forgotten and replaced with a letter and number, but they give each other nicknames like Tattle or Stench or Little Fearless. As they slave away at chores, Little Fearless, who is actually the bravest girl in the school, tells the other girls stories, stories about the day their families will return for them. Little Fearless’s own hope and conviction spur her on a dangerous adventure — a bold and unthinkable plan that will either save the imprisoned girls or mean the end of Little Fearless herself, or both.

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ISBN
978-0-76363-637-1
Publisher
Candlewick


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on March 1, 2008

Gr 5-8 A dystopian novel, starring Little Fearless as a "nameless" girl in a work asylum. The inhabitants of Lott's world naively follow the propaganda of the supposedly democratically elected City Boss. His cohort, the Controller, runs the workhouse under the guise of it being a school for wayward girls. Cleverly manipulating her fellow inmates, Little Fearless ri...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Guide

Reviewed on January 1, 2007

Little Fearless is wrenched from her mother and taken to the Institute, an indoctrination center where the girls' names are stripp...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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