Dread NationAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 4 June 2019
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New York Times bestseller; 6 starred reviews!
At once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiara country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet.
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvaniaderailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever.
In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, andlaws likethe Native and Negro Education Act requirecertain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead.
But there are also opportunitiesand Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do.It's a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane.After all, not evenbeing the daughter of a wealthy white Southern womancould save her from societys expectations.
But thats not a life Jane wants.Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston's School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesnt pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose.
But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies.
And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems.
"Abundant action, thoughtful worldbuilding, and a brave, smart, and skillfully drawn cast entertain as Ireland illustrates the ignorance and immorality of racial discrimination and examines the relationship between equalityand freedom."(Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List")
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