MAGICAL REALISM: Evelyn Hernandez is not your typical teenager. At her high school she has become known as “The Revenge Artist,” and when they say artist, they mean it literally. Evelyn has a gift.
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MAGICAL REALISM: Evelyn Hernandez is not your typical teenager. At her high school she has become known as “The Revenge Artist,” and when they say artist, they mean it literally. Evelyn has a gift.
Tabitha has just lost her best friend in a car accident. When she turns to her boyfriend for comfort, he takes her virginity and confesses he slept with the now dead best friend. Instead of becoming angry at them both, she continues to mourn her friend and decides to join her in death. She borrows razor blades from her neighbor who is a cutter and slits her wrists.
Emmie and the residents of New Haven fled River Springs so they could be free and start over. The four revolutionaries are coming together slowly to fulfill the prophecy foretold by their ancestors long ago. Building a new city has its challenges and preparing the citizens of New Haven for war is even tougher.
Neve and Micah have a forbidden love, one so forbidden that it marks them as traitors to their country. In order to be together freely they attempt to cross the border from their country, The Nation, to the bordering country, the New Republic. Things are not as rosy as they believed.
HISTORICAL: Peter is excited to tell his best friend, Hilda, he and his class are going to Kinderlandverschickung, or KLV, Hitler’s mass evacuation program for children to be protected from the war. Hilda is angry because Peter seems to be so pleased at getting away from her. Karl-Heinz, Peter’s friend is also going to KLV, and they cannot wait to get there.