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post-apocalyptic literature, teenagers, orphans, fiction

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400 years into the post-apocalyptic future, 13 year-old orphan Leandro and his younger sister, Gabi, struggle to survive in a barren San Joaquin Valley. Like the other Spanish-speaking lower class field workers, they are forced to farm vegetables for the elite ruling class, or risk exile or death in the harsh desert, a barren wasteland filled with terrifying man-eating wyrms. Leandro’s plan to escape with Gabi is thrown into disarray when Gabi is caught stealing a single strawberry in the market. Leandro takes the blame and is sentenced to banishment, or he can choose to have his consciousness transferred to an alebrije, an Old World animal drone. He chooses to have his mind transferred into a hummingbird drone, a choice that carries its own consequences. He is forced to find the daughter of one of the ruling directors and return her to Pocatel so he can reunite with Gabi.

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