Annotation
The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state, is not talented enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to escape - and to survive.
Awards
2010 Sequoyah Book Award
2010 Nevada Young Reader's Award
2009-2010 Virginia Reader's Choice Awards
2009 Black-Eyed Susan Book Award
2010 Evergreen Young Adult Book Award
2009-2010 Great Lakes' Great Books Award
2011 Nutmeg Children's Book Award
Characters
| Name | Connor |
| Gender | Male |
| Name | Risa |
| Gender | Female |
| Trait | Orphan |
| Name | Lev |
| Gender | Male |
| Genre | Young adult fiction Science fiction Adventure --Survival Thriller --Man on the run |
| Topics | Friendship Orphans Cross-country journeys Survival Teenagers Organ harvesting Runaways Revolutionaries |
| Series | ||
| Unwind series | ||
| 1 | Unwind | |
| 2 | Unwholly | |