![]() ![]() ![]() “Sci-fi fans with an environmental bent will find this book particularly engaging. “Short cliff-hanger chapters alternate between the three teens’ points of view and build to an ending that will leave fans breathless for the next one.” - ALA Booklist “This joins the ranks of Roth’s Divergent and Wells’ Partials as a provocative, character-driven, and action-packed dystopian series opener to watch out for.” - Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Now, while you still can.” - Kathleen Duey, author of National Book Award finalist Skin Hunger When all three cross paths and walk into the Outlands with two days' worth of oxygen in their tanks, everything they believe will be shattered. ![]() His best friend, Bea, is an Auxiliary who's never worried about anything but having enough air. ![]() Quinn's a Premium who's never had to worry about having enough air. But what if you can't pay? And what if you think everything could be different? Alina's a revolutionary who believes the Resistance can save the environment, can break free, and she's on her first mission. In Sarah Crossan's Resist, the eagerly anticipated conclusion to Breathe, minimal back story was supplied so it was easier to treat this as a stand-alone and dive right in with no preconceptions or expectations, which worked slightly better than trying to constantly remember each character's circumstances and failing. Ever since the Switch, when the oxygen levels plummeted and most of humanity died, the survivors have been protected in a glass dome full of manufactured air. ![]()
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