A blog for young readers (and YA lovers) from the Providence Athenaeum.

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What’s New: Across the Universe

New to the Athenaeum’s YA corner is the Across the Universe series by Beth Revis. From Revis’s website:

A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder.

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awake on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into a brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.

Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone—one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship—tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn’t do something soon, her parents will be next.

Now, Amy must race to unlock Godspeed’s hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there’s only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.

You can learn a lot more about this book and the sequel, One Million Suns, at the author’s website. You can also follow Beth Revis here on tumblr!

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