I am dangerous to your dignity and should be stopped.Ĥ. All my books will either will make you either cry on the bus or snort milk out your nose. I write books for young readers and people like me who didn't grow up. I am world-famous in Canada, which is kind of like being world-famous in real life.ģ. I'm a physicist turned poet turned YA novelist.Ģ. A game that will end up killing them both-unless she can find a way to break all the rules.ġ. And he opens Greta’s eyes to the brutality of the system they live under-and to her own power.Īs Greta and Elián watch their nations tip closer to war, Greta becomes a target in a new kind of game. Elián is a boy who refuses to play by the rules, a boy who defies everything Greta has ever been taught. But everything changes when a new hostage arrives. Like them, she is prepared to die with dignity, if she must. Like them, she is taught to obey the machines that control their lives. Until then she lives in the Precepture school with the daughters and sons of the world’s leaders. Greta will be free if she can survive until her eighteenth birthday. This is how the game is played: if you want to rule, you must give one of your children as a hostage. Greta is a duchess and crown princess-and a hostage to peace. And really, if the odd princess has a hard day, is that too much to ask? The world is at peace, said the Utterances.
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