Book Descriptions
for Legend by Marie Lu
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Day is the Republic’s most wanted criminal. June is the Republic’s most promising student. June goes undercover on the streets of Los Angeles, determined to bring in the notorious teen after he kills her older brother Metias, an army Captain who raised her after her parents’ death. Day, attempting to steal plague medicine for his family when Metias was shot, is on the run with twelve-year-old Tess. June takes refuge with the two after a street fight, unaware that he is the boy she is looking for. By the time June figures out Day’s identity, she has a hard time reconciling his reputation with reality: Yes, he is highly skilled and wears suspicion like a charm, but he also has great compassion, no matter how much he tries to hide it. Still, she helps arrest him, and then finds everything she’s been taught to believe unraveling. Marie Lu’s swiftly paced debut novel moves back and forth between the perspectives of these two teens living in a grim future where the government and military wield oppressive control. Each is challenged to trust, and then love, while unraveling truth and fighting for their lives. (Ages 12–15)
CCBC Choices 2012. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2012. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
A New York Times bestseller!
What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.
From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths - until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.
Full of nonstop action, suspense, and romance, this novel is sure to move readers as much as it thrills.
What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.
From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths - until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.
Full of nonstop action, suspense, and romance, this novel is sure to move readers as much as it thrills.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
