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The Sky Inside by Clare B. Dunkle
June 29, 2008, 8:33 pm
Filed under: Young Adult Fiction | Tags: , ,

This is a new addition to our Young Adult collection.  Although I’m not a huge Sci-Fi fan, this book really reeled me in.  Readers can only assume it takes place in our future, after something has happened to force people to live inside huge domes which simulate an outdoor environment.  Everything is going along fine there (with each batch of new babies being genetically engineered, what could go wrong?), until one day a stranger comes along and takes away all of the “wonder babies” (the youngest members of society who are unusually bright).  This doesn’t sit right with 13-year-old Martin, whose sister is among the newly missing.  He sets out to find her and what he finds out along the way will keep you formulating new questions until the very end.  The Sky Inside is unbelievably suspenseful and imaginative.

~Contributed by Gina Loprinzo