January 2005
Eye
of the Wolf
by Troon Harrison
The day before my mother disappeared without a trace, the Governing
Corporation closed all the schools in the country. Perhaps they
would never reopen. When my friends, Tannis and Marl, and I were
little kids, school seemed like one of life’s strongest
powers. Now we were fifteen and knew that there were powers stronger
than school or parents. The weather was one of the strongest powers
of all. The young Ice Age was eating our country alive; it was
a grinding, relentless, implacable power that no one knew how
to fight against and no one knew how to save us from.
It is June 2205 and the northern portion of the earth is in the
grips of a devastating Ice Age. Chandra has lost her mother and
she is desperate to get information on her whereabouts. The living
conditions in the North are dreadful and the government struggles
just to provide the minimum basics of human existence: food and
shelter. While the North in snowbound, impoverished and starved,
the South is prosperous. The border between the North and the
South is heavily guarded. Chandra has to cross that border, illegally
and without papers in order to find out what happen to her mother.
Though unable to rescue her at the time, Chandra learns of a secret
plot to "eliminate" 92 percent of the northern population
and returns home to save her fellow citizens from certain destruction.
This synopsis was written by a San José Public Library
librarian
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