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Burn Out

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Most people want to save the world; seventeen-year-old Tora just wants to get off of it. One of the last survivors in Earth's final years, Tora yearns to escape the wasteland her planet has become, but discovers her fellow survivors are even more deadly than the hostile environment.

Holed up in an underground shelter, Tora is alone. All Tora has left is Trigger, one of the bio-energetic weapons her father created for the government before his conscience kicked in.

When mercenaries take Tora's weapons by force, fury turns to fear. Tora must choose between saving herself or honoring her father's request to save humanity from the most lethal weapons in existence.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 27, 2014
      In 300 years, mankind will colonize the stars via faster-than-light travel but be unable to master the basics of hydrogen harvest and combustion to ensure a water supply. That’s just one of the unlikely aspects of the “science” of this fiction. Tora, the sole and embittered survivor of her family, is trapped on a dying Earth by a promise to her father. She guards the apocalyptic weapons he developed for—and then stole from—the corrupt Consulate government. The one person who knows where to find her is the mercenary Markus, who gladly sells her out, only to be double-crossed himself. Tora is trapped in the family bunker with Markus’s crew, including the cute but surly James. The nominal makings of a romantic thriller come together in Helvig’s debut, but the situation still doesn’t make sense. If the weapons should never fall into others’ hands, why didn’t Tora’s father simply destroy them, instead of his family? There are few answers and no resolution, but a sequel is planned. Ages 12–up. Agent: Jessica Regel, Foundry Literary + Media.

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  • ATOS Level:5
  • Lexile® Measure:700
  • Interest Level:6-12(MG+)
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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