num_pages: 337
description: Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives.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 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.
language: English
title: Unwind
titlecomplete: Unwind (Unwind, #1)
characters: Risa Ward, Lev Calder, Connor Lassiter
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Thriller, Teen, Horror, Young Adult, Survival, Fantasy, Dystopia
ratings_count: 222807
places: Scottsburg, Indiana, Arizona, Joplin, Missouri, Missouri, Akron, Ohio, Indiana, Ohio
series: Unwind Dystology
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Evergreen Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Sakura Medal
category: Middle School Book, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Florida Teens Read, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Gouden Lijst, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Green Mountain Book Award, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Gateway Readers Award, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Oklahoma Sequoyah Award
category: Intermediate
publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers