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“An entertaining, suspenseful thriller with a genuinely chilling villain. Good fun.”
-Kirkus Reviews
“Steve Layne has a powerful, passionate vision and knows how to connect with young readers. The poignancy and empathy with which he tells this tale is a reminder that a book is more than mere words: it is a relationship between reader and author.”
-Neal Shusterman, author of The Dark Side of Nowhere
“Part sci-fi thriller, part theme-park horror ride, this first novel is set in a paradise community where everything is perfectly controlled. The story is told in a wry contemporary voice by high-school junior Jack, who joins with his rebellious grandmother and resists his dad’s plans to force the family into Paradise. What will hold teen readers is the horror of a parent prepared to do anything, even kill, in order to clone the perfect family.”
-Booklist
Since Jack Barrett’s father started working for the Eden Corporation, his desire for perfection has spiraled into a raging obsession that is out of control. When his father forcibly relocates the family to the village of Paradise, Jack uncovers a plot that threatens the existence of his entire family. Delving even further into the secrets of the village, he soon discovers just how high the price of perfection can be . . . and to what lengths some people are willing to go to obtain it.
In this compelling thriller, Steven L. Layne takes readers on a suspenseful trek into the depths of the human psycheposing provocative questions that linger long after the story’s end. Read about Jack’s continuing struggle with perfection in the exciting sequel, Paradise Lost.
Hal Clement Award, Best New Science Fiction Novel for Young Adults in the U.S.
Best of the Best for Young Adults, Missouri Library Association
Read Aloud Books Too Good to Miss, Indiana Library Federation
Texas Lone Star Top 20 List
Young Adult Choice Title, International Reading Association
Accelerated Reader Program Selection
Accelerated Reader and Scholastic Reading Counts! Selection
Steven L. Layne serves as director of the Master of Education in Literacy program at Judson University in Elgin, Illinois, where he teaches courses in reading methodology as well as in children’s and adolescent literature. Dr. Layne is a respected literacy consultant, motivational keynote speaker, and featured author both in and outside of the United States.
Dr. Layne has been honored with numerous awards for his work as an educator. In 2001, he received one of the Milken Family Foundation’s Educaton Awards for excellence in teaching. He was also named to the 2001 All-USA Teacher Team byUSA Today and was chosen as the Edwin A. Hoey Award winner for Outstanding Middle School Educator by the National Council of Teachers of English in 2001. He was the 2000 ICARE for Reading Award winner and the 1999 Junior High Reading Educator of the Year.
Steven L. Layne is the author of several other books published by Pelican:
The Teachers’ Night Before Christmas, an International Reading Association/Children’s Book Council Children’s Choices selection
My Brother Dan’s Delicious, an International Reading Association/Children’s Book Council Children’s Choices selection
Over Land and Sea: A Story of International Adoption, one ofLearning magazine’s Books for Special Kids for Back-to-School
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