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In a dystopian future where nearly everything is done online, Maddie, a seventeen-year-old girl, is forced into a Los Angeles detention center. Brainwashing is administered to help her accept this new reality. Maddie resists, driven by her desire to reconnect with the physical world and maintain her sense of self. The story explores themes of identity, resistance, and the struggle against a government that has deemed the physical world a threat.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Katie Kacvinsky
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