Piper Pascal has spent her life on the Escape, a city-sized cruise liner holding all that's left of America.
She does not remember the world before the Flood. All she knows is that she'll do anything to please the Godmother, the head of the Escape, the only parent Piper has ever really had.
Since age six, Piper has been a spy for the Godmother's cult of secret police. Food, friendships, sleep, population---the Godmother controls it all. If you disobey, Piper will catch you.
Until one day — Piper Pascal finds the one thing the Godmother hates most. A baby. A child born without permission.
If Piper cares for the child, she will be hunted. Arrested. Killed. But against everything the Godmother has told her, Piper begins to realize she cannot let the baby go.
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Gwen Newell was born in Germany, raised in Florida, and transplanted to the Pacific Northwest where she pretends she's still by the ocean as much as she can. She wrote her first story at age seven, and hasn't stopped writing since. She now lives with her husband, Ben, in a wee house on a hill where they await the birth of their first child.
IMPRINT: Canonball Books
GENRE: Middle Grade (Grades 4-9)
AUTHOR: Gwen Newell
PAGE COUNT: 378
SIZE: 5.5x8.5"
HARDBACK ISBN-10: 1-95-790585-9
HARDBACK ISBN-13: 978-1-957905-85-3
BINDING: Hardback
PUB. DATE: October 24, 2023
SKU: FC-173HB