These Stolen Lives
By (Author) Sharada Keats
Illustrated by Scholastic
Scholastic
Scholastic
11th April 2024
11th April 2024
United Kingdom
Young Adult
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Thrillers / suspense
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Fantasy romance
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Runaways
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Death and grief
Paperback
464
Width 127mm, Height 193mm, Spine 33mm
340g
A powerful dystopian thriller from a stunning new voice in YA, set in a world divided by race where life itself must be paid for if you want to survive ... Six years ago, seventeen-year-old Mora survived the terrifying Skol invasion. They stole her land. They took her family. And now not even her life is her own. Skol culture revolves around one motto: Life is Golden. You must pay the government for the right to survive. If you can't, you're cast out ... or culled. Records of every citizen are held at the highly-secured Life Registry, which tracks who lives and who dies, who pays and who fails. Colonised survivors face endless servitude, repaying the 'debt' of their years lived before the invasion. Mora is resigned to her fate, finding glimmers of joy in her tentative friendship with another repayer, the handsome, elusive Kit. But then she finds out that twelve-year-old Zako is to be put to death by the dangerous new Skol Governor. Finding the courage to fight back, Mora and Kit conspire to smuggle Zako to safety. But their plan draws them into a dark mystery ... and a heart-pounding mission at the Life Registry itself. They must ask themselves: what are we worth to each other