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Publisher's Summary
Five friends leave their community and embark on an adventure that will change their lives forever in this fascinating utopian saga.
Mori and her friends Julia, Benji, and Theo have never seen the world beyond the walls of their utopian community, Old Harmonie. That changes when their new friend Ilana is threatened by the rules that are supposed to keep them all safe. Together, they escape, hoping to find help in Boston with Dr. Agatha Varden, one of Old Harmonie's pioneering founders.
But as they encounter kids from the outside and face challenges they never expected, Mori and her friends begin to understand the complicated reality of their supposedly perfect world. With the help of these new friends, they just might be able to save Ilana, but at what cost?
This thought-provoking sequel to Megan Frazer Blakemore's stunningly imaginative novel, The Firefly Code, gives listeners a chance to see our world in a brand new light.
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- Iverson
- 03-04-20
favorite book ever
I love this book and the 1st one too, it's my favorite book! read it
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-14-19
Amazing
This book is awesome and in order to understand this book, you have to read the firefly code!😁😀😍😎
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- Renee
- 09-29-17
loved it. i was sucked in to this other reality!
great story and great word pictures to get you really invested in the characters. now i want to know what happens when they grow up. lol.
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When Jack is sent to Hazelwood, Iowa, to live with his strange aunt and uncle, he expects a summer of boredom. Little does he know that the people of Hazelwood have been waiting for him for a long time.... When he arrives, three astonishing things happen: First, he makes friends - not imaginary friends but actual friends. Second, he is beaten up by the town bully; the bullies at home always ignored him. Third, the richest man in town begins to plot Jack’s imminent, and hopefully painful, demise.
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WOW!!!!! Brilliant ALL the WAY!!!!!I
- By Diane Adams on 03-02-17
By: Kelly Barnhill
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The Adoration of Jenna Fox
- By: Mary E. Pearson
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers?
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Who Is Jenna?
- By Ilana on 05-11-14
By: Mary E. Pearson
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The Season of Styx Malone
- By: Kekla Magoon
- Narrated by: Sullivan Jones
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Caleb and Bobby Gene, two brothers embarking on a madcap, heartwarming, one-thing-leads-to-another adventure in which friendships are forged, loyalties are tested...and miracles just might happen. Caleb Franklin and his big brother Bobby Gene are excited to have adventures in the woods behind their house. But Caleb dreams of venturing beyond their ordinary small town. Then Caleb and Bobby Gene meet new neighbor Styx Malone.
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REEEEEEEEE but good
- By Anonymous User on 08-26-19
By: Kekla Magoon
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Uglies
- Uglies, Book 1
- By: Scott Westerfeld
- Narrated by: Emily Tremaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Tally lives in a world where your 16th birthday brings aesthetic perfection: an operation that erases all your flaws, transforming you from an "Ugly" into a "Pretty". She is on the eve of this important event and cannot wait for her life to change. As well as guaranteeing supermodel looks, life as a Pretty seems to revolve around having a good time. But then she meets Shay, who is also 15 - but with a very different outlook on life.
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Deadpan narrator murders bubbly story.
- By Mrs. T on 11-09-16
By: Scott Westerfeld
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The Wolf: The Prequel
- The Keeper Saga, Book 0.5
- By: K.R. Thompson
- Narrated by: Geoffrey A. Hood
- Length: 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Once upon a time, there lived a man whose fate would rest with two sisters. One will hold his heart. With her, he will find a love that will last forever, though it will come with a price. From the other sister, he will learn fortitude as he discovers that she holds the power to destroy all he holds dear. For as easily as one sister captures his heart, the other will trap his soul.
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Loved it!
- By Lorie on 11-14-17
By: K.R. Thompson
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The Boy Who Couldn't Fly Straight
- The Broom Closet Stories, Book 1
- By: Jeff Jacobson
- Narrated by: Zachary Antonioli
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Closeted high school sophomore Charlie Creevey's quiet life in the Sierra Nevada Foothills is shattered one day when a menacing stranger invades his home, forcing him to flee to the Pacific Northwest. Barely escaping with his life, Charlie is whisked away to Seattle to take refuge with an aunt and uncle he doesn't know. There, he discovers he hails from a family of witches, and will soon be initiated into the craft and must face the reality that he is a gay witch.
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Bad editing mars this half-of-a-story.
- By Tim on 11-02-17
By: Jeff Jacobson
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The Darkest Minds
- Darkest Minds, Book 1
- By: Alexandra Bracken
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp." She might have survived the mysterious disease that killed most of America's children, but she and the others emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control. Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.
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Not Your Daughter's Heroine
- By R. Reed on 05-19-18
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The Iron Trial
- Book One of The Magisterium
- By: Holly Black, Cassandra Clare
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail. All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him. So he tries his best to do his worst - and fails at failing. Now the Magisterium awaits him. It's a place that's both sensational and sinister, with dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future.
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Harry Potter it ain't!
- By Douglas on 09-11-14
By: Holly Black, and others
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The Faerie Guardian
- Creepy Hollow Series, Book 1
- By: Rachel Morgan
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie, Zach Villa
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Protecting humans from dangerous magical creatures is all in a day's work for a faerie training to be a guardian. Seventeen-year-old Violet Fairdale knows this better than anyone - she's about to become the best guardian the Guild has seen in years. That is until a cute human boy who can somehow see through her faerie glamour follows her into the fae realm. Now she's broken Guild Law, a crime that could lead to her expulsion.
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Charming YA Fantasy
- By J.E. Johnson on 06-03-15
By: Rachel Morgan
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Hello, Universe
- By: Erin Entrada Kelly
- Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo, Amielynn Abellera
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In one day four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports family. Valencia Somerset, who is deaf, is smart, brave, and secretly lonely, and she loves everything about nature. Kaori Tanaka is a self-proclaimed psychic whose little sister, Gen, is always following her around. And Chet Bullens wishes the weird kids would just stop being so different so that he can concentrate on basketball.
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Who would have thought?
- By Judy A. on 02-18-19
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The Soulkeepers
- The Soulkeepers Series, Book 1
- By: G. P. Ching
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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When fifteen-year-old Jacob Lau is pulled from the crumpled remains of his mother's car, no one can explain why he was driving or why the police can't find his mother's body. Made a ward of his uncle and thousands of miles from home, a beautiful and mysterious neighbor, Dr. Abigail Silva, offers to use her unique abilities to help him find his mom. In exchange, she requires Jacob to train as a Soulkeeper, a gifted warrior charged with protecting human souls. He agrees to her demands, desperate for any clue to the mystery of his mother's disappearance.
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Great narration, not really my type of story
- By K. April Holgate on 12-15-14