DROUGHT By: Pam Bachorz
For the last 200 years, Ruby has been a part of the Congregation, a religious group enslaved by Darwin West and his Overseers, forced to harvest Water for a man called the Visitor. They are starved and brutally beaten, but they struggle through each year waiting faithfully for Otto, their savior to come and rescue them. Only he doesn't come, he never comes, and Ruby begins to lose faith. She longs to escape the congregation and live in the real world, but if Ruby leaves, the Congregation would die because only her blood and her blood alone can give the Water its healing and life-sustaining powers. So Ruby is left with a choice. Does she stay with the Congregation, keeping faith that Otto will return? Or does she risk the lives of hundreds of people and venture out to find their savior herself? Ages 12 and up. Egmont $17.99 Reviewed by Maggie age 16
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