Pulse Point
- Publisher
- Great Plains Publications
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2018
- Category
- General
- Recommended Age
- 10 to 16
- Recommended Grade
- 5 to 11
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781927855973
- Publish Date
- Jul 2018
- List Price
- $14.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781927855980
- Publish Date
- Jun 2018
- List Price
- $7.99
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Description
For Kaia, setting foot outside can be deadly. Climate change has made Earth too dangerous for people to live anywhere but inside the City. Run on the energy created by its Citizens and sustainable in every way, the City uses microchips, called pulse points, to control the energy its inhabitants use.
When Kaia's pulse point malfunctions, she experiences freedom from the strict City rules for the first time in her life. With unlimited energy, she doesn't need to run for hours on a sensor mat, and she can share energy to hide her grandmother's failing health. But a shocking discovery makes her question what goes on inside the City walls and sets her on a journey to discover the world outside them.
It's a tense read with all the attributes of great YA: relationship drama, interfering progenitors (i.e., parents), burgeoning romance, secrets, confusion, and conflict . . . Look carefully and you'll see how Pulse Point s worlds could be our own. - CanLit for Little Canadians
Tense, engaging, thoughtful. - 49th Shelf
About the authors
An author and junior high school teacher who also enjoyed many years of teaching kindergarten, Colleen Nelson earned her Bachelor of Education from the University of Manitoba in her hometown of Winnipeg. Her previous works include the critically-acclaimed middle-grade novels Harvey Comes Home and Harvey Holds His Own; Sadia, which won the 2019 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award; and Blood Brothers, which was selected as the 2018 McNally Robinson Book of the Year for Young People. Colleen writes daily in between appearances at hockey rinks and soccer fields in support of her two sports-loving sons. The family’s West Highland Terrier Rosie adds an extra-loveable dose of liveliness, squirrel-chasing, and shoe-chewing to their lives.
Editorial Reviews
2020 MYRCA Northern Lights Nominee
"Tense, engaging, thoughtful." - Ali Bryan, 49th Shelf
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