A Girl Called Fearless

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Avie Reveare has the normal life of a privileged teen growing up in L.A., at least as normal as any girl's life is these days. After a synthetic hormone in beef killed fifty million American women ten years ago, only young girls, old women, men, and boys are left to pick up the pieces. The death threat is past, but fathers still fear for their daughters' safety, and the Paternalist Movement, begun to "protect" young women, is taking over the choices they make.
Like all her friends, Avie still mourns the loss of her mother, but she's also dreaming about college and love and what she'll make of her life. When her dad "contracts" her to marry a rich, older man to raise money to save his struggling company, her life suddenly narrows to two choices: Be trapped in a marriage with a controlling politician, or run. Her lifelong friend, student revolutionary Yates, urges her to run to freedom across the border to Canada. As their friendship turns to passion, the decision to leave becomes harder and harder. Running away is incredibly dangerous, and it's possible Avie will never see Yates again. But staying could mean death.
From Catherine Linka comes this romantic, thought-provoking, and frighteningly real story, A Girl Called Fearless, about fighting for the most important things in life--freedom and love.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 05/06/2014
ISBN: 9781250039293
Pages: 353
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.53h x 6.00w x 1.36d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2014
School Library Journal 05/01/2014 pg. 134
Shelf Awareness 05/09/2014
Booklist 05/15/2014 pg. 61
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 06/01/2014 pg. 528
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2014 pg. 98
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2014 pg. 117 - Superior,Well Above Average

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 174334 / Girl Called Fearless
Reading Level: 4.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 14