Breathe
by:
Sarah Crossan (author)
Years after the Switch, life inside the Pod has moved on. A poor Auxiliary class cannot afford the oxygen tax which supplies extra air for running, dancing and sports. The rich Premiums, by contrast, are healthy and strong. Anyone who opposes the regime is labelled a terrorist and ejected from...
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Years after the Switch, life inside the Pod has moved on. A poor Auxiliary class cannot afford the oxygen tax which supplies extra air for running, dancing and sports. The rich Premiums, by contrast, are healthy and strong. Anyone who opposes the regime is labelled a terrorist and ejected from the Pod to die.Sixteen-year-old Alina is part of the secret resistance, but when a mission goes wrong she is forced to escape from the Pod. With only two days of oxygen in her tank, she too faces the terrifying prospect of death by suffocation. Her only hope is to find the mythical Grove, a small enclave of trees protected by a hardcore band of rebels. Does it even exist, and if so, what or who are they protecting the trees from?A dystopian thriller about courage and freedom, with a love story at its heart.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B0093K1TOE
Publish date: October 11th 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 385
Edition language: English
Series: Breathe (#1)
Inhalt: Eine Welt ohne Sauerstoff. Alles scheint tot. Unter einer Glaskuppel gibt es nur wenige Überlebende: Alina, hat sich schon vor Langem den Rebellen angeschlossen, die gegen die Allmacht von ›Breathe‹ kämpfen, und wurde nie gefasst. Bis jetzt ... Quinn, will als Sohn eines ranghohen ›Breathe‹-...
Tolles Buch, eine überzeugende Geschichte, da man denken kann, das passiert auch mal bei uns ! Die Welt in der Zukunft, immer mehr Natur wurde zerstört und man konnte nicht mehr Atmen, dann hat der Konzern Breath eine Kuppel gebaut unter der man Atmen kann. Aber es gibt dort auch wieder Klassen Unte...
I purchased this book last year, during my dystopian love affair, but somehow I never got around to reading it. I finally decided to pick it up this month, partially because the cover caught my eye when I was looking for something to read! Unfortunately, the story inside the book just doesn't live u...
Book Infoebook, 251 pagesPublished October 2nd 2012 by Greenwillow Booksoriginal title BreatheISBN 0062118714 (ISBN13: 9780062118714)edition language Englishseries Breathe #1characters Bea Whitcraft, Alina Moon, Silas Moon, Quinn Caffreyliterary awards Carnegie Medal in Literature Nominee (2014)othe...
When oxygen levels plunge in a treeless world, a state lottery decides which lucky few will live inside the Pod. Everyone else will slowly suffocate. Years after the Switch, life inside the Pod has moved on. A poor Auxiliary class cannot afford the oxygen tax which supplies extra air for running, da...