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The Declaration Paperback

:: Bloomsbury USA Childrens :: Released: 2008-08-19

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The Declaration Summary

in The Year 2140, It Is Illegal To Be Young.

children Are All But Extinct.

the World Is A Better Place.

longevity Drugs Are A Fountain Of Youth. Sign The Declaration, Agree Not To Have Children And You Too Can Live Forever. Refuse, And You Will Live As An Outcast. For The Children Born Outside The Law, It Only Gets Worse – Surplus Status.

not Everyone Thinks Longevity Is A Good Thing, But You Better Be Clear What Side You’re On. . . . Surplus Anna Is About To Find Out What Happens When You Can’t Decide If You Should Cheat The Law Or Cheat Death.

Amazon Significant Seven, October 2007: I've seen a wave of new young adult novels come across my desk this fall, and among them Gemma Malley's The Declaration has captivated me the most. We meet Malley's heroine, Anna, in a society that's unraveling. One hundred or so years earlier, "Longevity," a new drug granting immortality, took the world by storm, only to lead to an untenable swell in population. Anyone who wants to live forever in this brave new world must agree by law not to have children (thus the eponymous declaration) ... or else. Anna is a "Surplus," a fallout of this decree who ekes out a stark existence (in a neo -Dickensian outpost known as Grange Hall) with the hope of becoming a Valuable Asset to the adults immortal. However, with the arrival of a new Surplus, Peter, who's lived on the Outside his whole life, she discovers a path to the life she might have lived. A world in which children struggle against the adults in charge isn't a new concept, but Malley gives it a provocative twist in a debut that echoes Margaret Atwood, Aldous Huxley, and--most recently--Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go as it explores what happens when you tangle with reproductive power. --Anne Bartholomew

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Language & Subtitles English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published),