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Moger, Susan

 
9780807547748: Of Better Blood
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0807547743 ISBN 13 : 9780807547748
Editeur : Albert Whitman & Company, 2016

Synopsis

Teenage polio survivor Rowan Collier is caught in the crossfire of a secret war against "the unfit." It's 1922, and eugenics--the movement dedicated to racial purity and good breeding--has taken hold in America. State laws allow institutions to sterilize minorities, the "feeble-minded," and the poor, while local eugenics councils set up exhibits at county fairs with "fitter family" contests and propaganda. After years of being confined to hospitals, Rowan is recruited at sixteen to play a born cripple in a county fair eugenics exhibit. But gutsy, outspoken Dorchy befriends Rowan and helps her realize her own inner strength and bravery. The two escape the fair and end up at a summer camp on a desolate island run by the New England Eugenics Council. There they discover something is happening to the children. Rowan must find a way to stop the horrors on the island...if she can escape them herself.

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À propos de l'auteur

Susan Moger has a graduate degree in history and was a senior editor at Scholastic magazines before becoming a writing instructor. She has written several teaching guides for young people about history, including Teaching the Diary of Anne Frank. She lives in Maryland.

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Éditeur
Albert Whitman & Company
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807547743
ISBN 13 
9780807547748
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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