The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

Tierney James, sixteen, struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified, the survivors are allowed to return home and marry.

Recommended by Ms. Charpentier, School Librarian: “Roll up The Handmaid’s Tale, The Lord of the Flies, The Scarlet Letter, and The Hunger Games into one book, and you get this.”

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