The elites
By: Natasha Ngan
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781471401527
Subjects: Teen fiction; Young adult fiction; Police; Missing persons; Fantasy fiction; Juvenile fiction; Deception
Description: Hundreds of years into the future, when Neo-Babel is the only surviving city, Silver has become an Elite, a guard of the city's Council. But when her parents go missing, she is forced to confront the world beyond the walls of the city. Silver is plunged into a world of slums and dissidents, of secret splinter groups and deeply guarded secrets and dirty truths about Neo-Babel.
Table of contents: title: Only one city has survived: Neo-Babel, a city full of cultures; title: and racial tension. Fifteen-year-old Silver is an Elite, a citizen of Neo-Babel chosen to guard the city due to her superior DNA. She'd never dream of leaving; title: but then she fails to prevent the assassination of Neo Babel's president, setting off a chain of events more shocking and devastating than she could ever have imagined. Forced to flee the city with her best friend Butterfly (a boy with genetically-enhanced wings), Silver will have to fight to find her family, uncover the truth about Neo-Babel and come to terms with her complicated feelings for Butterfly.