Paola Mendoza

Solis -- Paola Mendoza, Hardcover

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From the authors of Sanctuary comes a haunting near-future companion tale about undocumented immigrants subjected to deadly experiments in a government labor camp and the four courageous rebels who set into place a daring plan to liberate them.

The year is 2033, and in this near-future America where undocumented people are forced into labor camps, life is bleak. Especially so for seventeen-year-old Rania, a Lebanese teenager from Chicago. When she and her mother were rounded up by the Deportation Force, they were given the brutal job of digging in the labor camp's mine searching for the destructive and toxic, but potentially world-changing chemical, aqualinium. With this chemical the corrupt and xenophobic government of the New American Republic could actually control the weather--ending devastating droughts sweeping the planet due to climate change. If the government succeeds, other countries would be at their mercy. Solidifying this power comes at the expense of the undocumented immigrants forced to endure horrendous conditions to mine the chemical or used in cruel experiments to test it, leaving their bodies wracked in extreme pain to the point of death. As the experiments ramp up, things only get worse. Rania and her fellow prisoners decide to start a revolution; if they don't, they know they will die.

Told by four narrators--Rania, Jess (a former teenage Deportation Force officer), Vali, and Vali's mother Liliana--Solis is about the courage and sacrifice it takes to stand and fight for freedom.

Author: Paola Mendoza, Abby Sher
Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780593530818
Age Range: 12-UP

About the Author
Paola Mendoza is an author, film director, activist, and artist working at the leading edge of human rights. A co-founder of the Women's March, she served as its artistic director. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Huffington Post, Glamour, Elle and InStyle. Paola is a co-founder of The Resistance Revival Chorus, The Soze Agency and The Meteor.
Abby Sher is an award-winning writer and performer. She is the author of Miss You Love You Hate You Bye, All the Ways the World Can End, Breaking Free, Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying, and Kissing Snowflakes. Abby has written and performed for the Second City, Upright Citizens Brigade, HBO, and NPR.

Product Tags:

Diversity & Multicultural, Dystopias, Emigration & Immigration, Grades 6-8, Hardcover, High School, Nancy Paulsen Books, Paola Mendoza, Prejudice & Racism, Social Themes, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction

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