Unwind (2007) - Neal Shusterman

Unwind (2007) – Neal Shusterman

(Unwind #1)

Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, 335 pages, ISBN 9781416912040

AWARDS:

Sakura Medal for Middle School Book, 2009

Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award List, 2010

One Book for Nebraska Teens, 2010-2011

Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award, 2011

Intermediate Oklahoma Sequoyah Award, 2009-2010

Annotation: Shusterman’s fast-paced novel challenges teens to consider when life begins, when it ends and what it really means to be alive.

Booktalk: What if your rights as a human being started when you turned eighteen? What if, before your eighteenth birthday, someone needed your right arm? Or your kidney? Or even your heart? Before your eighteenth birthday, everything’s up for grabs. Legally. And there’s nothing you can do about it.

Except maybe run.

That’s what three teens have decided to do: Connor, because his parents think he’s a troublemaker, Risa, because her orphanage can no longer afford to keep her, and Lev, who’s being “unwound” because of his family’s strict religious practices. They’re all three on the run and if they can survive until they’re eighteen, they’ll be fine. 

But everyone is looking for them….