num_pages: 256
description: Janet McNaughton’s brilliantly realized novel The Secret Under My Skin has been critically acclaimed both here in Canada, where it won three awards, and in the US. Readers everywhere have been eagerly awaiting its sequel, also set in a darkly tinged future three centuries ahead.Blake Raintree, the heroine of The Secret Under My Skin, is now eighteen. She returns to the city of her birth as an aide to a justice council charged with trying to address the wrongs of the technocaust. While there, Blake submits the ID code from the microchip that was implanted in her arm by her parents in infancy, hoping to find out more about her past, and especially her father. What she learns will cause her to question everything she knows about herself. Torn between terrible anger and a search for love and acceptance she has been denied her entire life, Blake must face a harsh choice.Another superbly crafted blend of rich storytelling, thought-provoking ideas and sensitive character portrayal, The Raintree Rebellionreconfirms Janet McNaughton as one of our best juvenile novelists.
language: English
title: The Raintree Rebellion
titlecomplete: The Raintree Rebellion
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Canada, Young Adult, Dystopia
ratings_count: 197
series: Secret Under My Skin
publisher: HarperTrophy