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Breathe

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_______________'Mad Max for the eco-generation' - Love Reading 4 Kids'The all-action plot and the hinted-at romantic triangle will keep the reader's interest to the end' - Irish Examiner_______________When oxygen levels plunge in a treeless world, a state lottery decides which lucky few will live inside the Pod.

Everyone else will slowly suffocate. Years after the Switch, life inside the Pod has moved on.

A poor Auxiliary class cannot afford the oxygen tax which supplies extra air for running, dancing and sports.

The rich Premiums, by contrast, are healthy and strong.

Anyone who opposes the regime is labelled a terrorist and ejected from the Pod to die. Sixteen-year-old Alina is part of the secret resistance, but when a mission goes wrong she is forced to escape from the Pod.

With only two days of oxygen in her tank, she too faces the terrifying prospect of death by suffocation.

Her only hope is to find the mythical Grove, a small enclave of trees protected by a hardcore band of rebels.

Does it even exist, and if so, what or who are they protecting the trees from?A dystopian thriller about courage and freedom, with a love story at its heart.

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Bloomsbury Childrens Books
1408827190 / 9781408827192
Paperback / softback
823.92
11/10/2012
United Kingdom
English
373 p.
20 cm
Quiz No: 225183, Points 11.00, Book Level 4.60,
Middle Years - Key Stage 2 Learn More
Originally published: New York: Greenwillow.