City of Savages (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781481410304)

"Red Dawn meets Escape from New York and The Hunger Games" (Booklist) in an action-packed dystopian fantasy filled with "prose [that] is gorgeous and brilliant" and "tells a satisfyingly dark tale through alternating the two sisters' points of view" (VOYA, starred review).

It's been nearly two decades since the Red Allies first attacked New York, and Manhattan is now a prisoner-of-war camp, ruled by Rolladin and her brutal, impulsive warlords. For Skyler Miller, Manhattan is a cage that keeps her from the world beyond the city's borders. But for Sky's younger sister, Phee, the POW camp is a dangerous playground of possibility, and the only home she'd ever want.

When Sky and Phee discover their mom's hidden journal from the war's outbreak, they both realize there's more to Manhattan--and their mother--than either of them had ever imagined. And after a group of strangers arrives at the annual POW census, the girls begin to uncover the island's long-kept secrets. The strangers hail from England, a country supposedly destroyed by the Red Allies, and Rolladin's lies about Manhattan's captivity begin to unravel.

Hungry for the truth, the sisters set a series of events in motion that end in the death of one of Rolladin's guards. Now they're outlaws, forced to join the strange Englishmen on an escape mission through Manhattan. Their flight takes them into subways haunted by cannibals, into the arms of a sadistic cult in the city's Meatpacking District and, through the pages of their mom's old journal, into the island's dark and shocking past.

Author: Lee Kelly
ISBN-10: 148141030X
ISBN-13: 9781481410304
Publisher: S&s/Saga Press
Language: English
Published: 02/03/2015
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.90w x 1.40d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 172582 / City of Savages


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 11/01/2014 pg. 118
Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2014 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2014
Publishers Weekly 12/01/2014
Booklist 02/01/2015 pg. 32
Library Journal 02/15/2015 pg. 74