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Book ID/图书代码： 02650508B28075

English Summary/英文概要： 2097 is a transformed world. Thirty years earlier, a mysterious plague wiped out 97 percent of the male population, devastating every world system from governments to sports teams, and causing both universal and unimaginable grief. In the face of such massive despair, women were forced to take over control of the planet--and in doing so they eliminated all of Earth’s most pressing issues. Poverty, crime, warfare, hunger . . . all gone.

But there’s a price to pay for this new "utopia," which fourteen-year-old Kellen is all too familiar with. Every day, he deals with life as part of a tiny minority that is purposefully kept subservient and small in numbers. His career choices and relationship options are severely limited and controlled. He also lives under the threat of scattered recurrences of the plague, which seem to pop up wherever small pockets of men begin to regroup and grow in numbers.

And then one day, his mother’s boss, an iconic political figure, shows up at his home. Kellen overhears something he shouldn’t--another outbreak seems to be headed for Afterlight, the rural community where his father and a small group of men live separately from the female-dominated society. Along with a few other suspicious events, like the mysterious disappearances of Kellen’s progressive teacher and his Aunt Paige, Kellen is starting to wonder whether the plague recurrences are even accidental. No matter what the truth is, Kellen cares only about one thing--he has to save his father.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 2097年是個女性主宰的世界，一位14歲小男孩是否能為自己爭取生存的權利！？

2097年是個截然不同的世界，一種30年前出現的神秘病毒把地球上97％的男性都消滅了，女性變成是地球上唯一的主宰，而在她們的統治下，許多以前的層出不窮的貧窮、犯罪、戰爭、飢餓等問題都不再出現。世界就像個真實的烏托邦！？
故事的主人翁是為14歲的小男孩Kellen，由於身為極少數的男性，以致於每天只能在被迫屈服的條件下生活，工作也受到限制及監控，因為他們還是處於病毒會再度蔓延的威脅下…
某天，媽媽的上司一位政府的高官突然來訪，Kellen無意間在他們談話中聽到，他的父親和其他少數的男性依然還活在非女性統治的鄉下區域…加上他的老師及阿姨Paige離開的真相似乎不是他所被告知的一樣，許多不斷浮現的疑點，讓他開始懷疑當初病毒發生的起因？事情的真相不管如何，目前唯一想法就是想辦法找到父親！(Vincent)

Awards/获奖情况：The first-person point of view and the page-turning plot of this post-apocalyptic thriller will hook readers awaiting the final installment of the Hunger Games trilogy and provoke more than a few thoughts as well.---Kirkus

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About the Author/作者介绍： David Patneaude finally heeded the advice, "It’s never too late to have a happy childhood," and began writing seriously (more or less) in the mid-1980s. His first novel, Someone Was Watching, was published by Albert Whitman in 1993. It was named to eight state master reading lists, winning awards in South Dakota and Utah.
Eight more books followed, the most recent of which, A Piece of the Sky, a tale of mystery and suspense, came out in April 2007. David’s books have been placed on young readers’ lists in more than thirty states and honored by the New York Public Library, the Society of School Librarians International, the Winnetka (Illinois) Public Library’s "One Book, Two Villages" program, and the Washington State Public Library. He has taught writing at conferences, community colleges, the University of Washington, and the Institute of Children’s Literature.
When he’s not sitting in a coffee shop writing, or at a school or library or conference talking about writing, or out on the running trail thinking about writing, he’s at home in Woodinville, Washington, with his wife, Judy, a junior high librarian.

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