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Radical

E. M Kokie

Fifteen-year-old Bex distrusts the government and trains at Clearview, a shooting club and survival center near her rural Michigan home. She keeps that part of her life from Lucy, who is visiting her grandparents, as their relationship develops. Bex becomes worried by her brother Mark’s involvement with young men who want to cause trouble. After the group is arrested for planning to use explosives, Bex is arrested as well. She struggles to trust a legal system that she believes has failed her.

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Themes
Family · Government And Civics · Identity · Love · Social Justice
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Published
September 13, 2016
ISBN-13
9780763669621
Language
English
Cooperative Children's Book Center, University of Wisconsin–MadisonCCBC Choices
  • 2017Fiction for Young Adults
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