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Dread nation / Justina Ireland.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: 451 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Educational level group: High school freshmen
  • Educational level group: High school sophomores
  • Educational level group: High school juniors
  • Educational level group: High school seniors
  • Educational level group: High school students
  • Age group: Teenagers
  • Age group: Early Adolescents
ISBN:
  • 9780062570604
  • 0062570609
  • 9780062570611
  • 0062570617
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
  • [Fic] 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.I6274 Dr 2018
  • PS3609.R4739 D74 2018
Online resources: Awards:
  • BCCB Blue Ribbons: Fiction, 2018
  • Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book Nominee, 2019
  • New York Public Library Best Books for Teens, 2018
  • School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018
  • YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2019
  • YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2019
Summary: "Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania--derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities--and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It's a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. After all, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white Southern woman could save her from society's expectations. But that's not a life Jane wants. Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston's School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn't pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose. But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subtitle from dust jacket.

"Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania--derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities--and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It's a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. After all, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white Southern woman could save her from society's expectations. But that's not a life Jane wants. Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston's School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn't pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose. But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems"-- Provided by publisher.

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In English.

BCCB Blue Ribbons: Fiction, 2018

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book Nominee, 2019

New York Public Library Best Books for Teens, 2018

School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2019

YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2019

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