An excellent issues based book that is a sequel to The Declaration . Set in a world in which a chemical company Pincent Pharma dominates the population through their production of a drug that reverses the aging process. Everybody takes the drug and in return for this people sign a "declaration" which states that they will not have children. Of course children are born and these are called "surplus" and are isolated and re-educated as slaves who one day may achieve the status of "valuable asset".
Anna and Peter have escaped the status of "surplus" and now live in a world in which they are pressured to sign the declaration. Peter takes a job in his grandfather's company Pincent Pharma and is pressured by the underground movement led by Pip, to help destroy the old order. Very exciting action and clearly not the end of this story.
Issues of state control, stem cell research, science verse religion and the public right to protest are all in evidence in this book. Fans of Margaret Haddix's Shadow Children series and Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses will love this book. For Intermediate and Secondary school students but adults will enjoy this too.
Published by Bloomsbury (2008)
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