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The erasure initiative / Lili Wilkinson.

By: Publication details: Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2020.Description: 336 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781760525057
  • 1760525057
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A823.4 23
LOC classification:
  • PR9619.4.W555 E73 2020
Awards:
  • Winner 2020 Aurealis Award for best young adult novel.
Summary: I wake up, and for a few precious seconds I don't realise there's anything wrong. The rumble of tyres on bitumen, and the hiss of air conditioning. The murmur of voices. The smell of air freshener. The cool vibration of glass against my forehead. A girl wakes up on a self-driving bus. She has no memory of how she got there or who she is. Her nametag reads CECILY. The six other people on the bus are just like her: no memories, only nametags. There's a screen on each seatback that gives them instructions. A series of tests begin, with simulations projected onto the front window of the bus. The passengers must each choose an outcome; majority wins. But as the testing progresses, deadly secrets are revealed, and the stakes get higher and higher. Soon Cecily is no longer just fighting for her freedom - she's fighting for her life.
List(s) this item appears in: Australian Young Adult Fiction | Awarded Young Adult Fiction
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Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Young Adult WIL Available 063323
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I wake up, and for a few precious seconds I don't realise there's anything wrong. The rumble of tyres on bitumen, and the hiss of air conditioning. The murmur of voices. The smell of air freshener. The cool vibration of glass against my forehead. A girl wakes up on a self-driving bus. She has no memory of how she got there or who she is. Her nametag reads CECILY. The six other people on the bus are just like her: no memories, only nametags. There's a screen on each seatback that gives them instructions. A series of tests begin, with simulations projected onto the front window of the bus. The passengers must each choose an outcome; majority wins. But as the testing progresses, deadly secrets are revealed, and the stakes get higher and higher. Soon Cecily is no longer just fighting for her freedom - she's fighting for her life.

13+ years.

Winner 2020 Aurealis Award for best young adult novel.

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