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20 Years Later

by Emma Newman
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LONDON, 2012: It arrives and with that the world is changed into an unending graveyard littered with the bones, wreckage, and memories of a dead past, gone forever. LONDON, 2032: Twenty years later, out of the ashes, a new world begins to rise, a place ruled by both loyalty and fear, and where the quest to be the first to regain lost knowledge is an ongoing battle for power. A place where laws are made and enforced by roving gangs-the Bloomsbury Boys, the Gardners, the Red Lady's Gang-who rule the streets and will do anything to protect their own. THE FOUR: Zane, Titus, Erin, Eve. Living in this new world, they discover that they have abilities never before seen. And little do they know that as they search post-apocalyptic London for Titus' kidnapped sister that they'll uncover the secret of It, and bring about a reckoning with the forces that almost destroyed all of humanity.

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    April 26, 2011

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    • School Library Journal

      November 1, 2011

      Gr 6 Up-Zane lives in relative peace with his mother, Miri, in the London of 2032, which is controlled by myriad gangs and still littered with the bones of all those who perished when It happened 20 years earlier. The 15-year-old helps Miri with their garden, which provides both food and healing herbs. They use the latter to treat the injuries of members of the nearby Bloomsbury Boys after clashes with rival gangs. When Titus and his sister, Lyssa, stumble into the Bloomsbury Boys' territory, Zane rescues Titus but mysterious figures able to shoot lightning kidnap Lyssa and injure the Bloomsbury leader. Zane learns that Titus has extraordinary healing powers and strange abilities, too. When the two begin training with Luthor, the champion of the Red Lady's gang, they meet his daughter, Erin. The three of them find that they can meet in their dreams. Titus is determined to rescue his sister and Zane wants to find out more about his father, who may actually be alive. By the end of the novel, the three friends discover a fourth teen with strange skills and determine what It actually was. Newman's postapocalyptic world has interesting elements, but Zane's naivete and the teens' ignorance of some things from the previous world but not others, feels odd. Still, this novel should appeal to the large readership of dystopian fiction.-Eric Norton, McMillan Memorial Library, Wisconsin Rapids, WI

      Copyright 2011 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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