Jennifer A. Nielsen built a loyal following with the Ascendance trilogy, and The Scourge shows the same knack for tight plotting and characters worth rooting for. When a deadly illness sweeps through the land, a girl is swept up in a quarantine she does not fully understand, and nothing about her situation is quite what it seems. It is a fast, twisty read for upper primary and lower secondary readers who like their fiction with real stakes.
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