The One Safe Place

✍ Scribed by Unsworth, Tania

• Book ID: 107764364
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 859 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781616204044

✦ Synopsis

In this near-future dystopia with echoes of The Giver and Among the Hidden , Tania Unsworth has created an unsettling page-turner--fast-paced, smooth, filled with dread--that's wholly satisfying and startlingly original.
Devin doesn't remember life before the world got hot; he has grown up farming the scorched earth with his grandfather in their remote valley. When his grandfather dies, Devin heads for the city. Once there, among the stark glass buildings, he finds scores of children, just like him, living alone on the streets. They tell him rumors of a place for abandoned children, with unlimited food and toys and the hope of finding a new family. But only the luckiest get there.
An act of kindness earns Devin an invitation to the home, but it's soon clear that it's no paradise. As Devin investigates the intimidating administrator and the zombie-like sickness that afflicts some children, he discovers the home's horrific true...