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Delirium
Hardcover, 480 pages, Harpercollins Childrens Books, List Price: $17.99 | purchase
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Book Summary
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until right before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
This book is about:
- Family life,
- Love,
- Young adult fiction,
- Orphans,
- Families,
- Government, Resistance to,
- Juvenile fiction,
- Maine,
- Science fiction,
- Fiction
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