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In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would "unwind" them

Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev's unwinding has been planned since his birth, as part of his family's strict religion. Brought together by chance, and kept together by desperation, these three unlikely companions make a harrowing cross-country journey, knowing their lives hang in the balance. If they can survive until theireighteenth birthday, they can't be harmed -- but when every piece of them, from their hands to their hearts, are wanted by a world gone mad, eighteen seems far, far away.

In Unwind, Boston Globe/Horn Book Award winner Neal Shusterman challenges readers' ideas about life -- not just where life begins, and where it ends, but what it truly means to be alive.

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Rating: - Unwind -- Amazing Book
Connor, Risa and Lev come from different places and sittuations, but they're all united when it comes to being Unwinds. This book takes you to a future where life becomes less valuable and new rules are stated, and these three kids more grow, and try to survive, through a society that has marked them for life (or atleast until they're 18).

Neal Shusterman's book has become one fo my favorites, I really didn't want it to end, I cared too much about the characters. This is a story that ... Read More

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Rating: - Great Read
I read this book because it was recommended to me by Amazon after I bought a different book. After reading the summary provided I thought it seemed interesting and picked it up from the library. The book begins with a teenage boy, Connor, discovering his parents have signed the papers to have him unwound. This new concept of unwinding is that a person's entire body is harvested and the parts given to those that need them. The law states that the entire body must be used, no parts thrown away. The reader ... Read More

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Rating: - A Great Book!
This book is a great story of the future where there is less doctors and more surgeons. Why? Unwinding. After the Heartland War, where there was a disagreement about abortion, they proposed unwinding: when a teen comes to a certain age, they can be "unwound" or salvaged for body parts. A couple of decades later comes Connor, a disruptive boy who is being unwound, and he goes AWOL, or escapes. By fate or luck, he meets Risa, who is being unwound to cut orphanage costs, and Lev, a tithe being unwound for ... Read More

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Rating: - Wow
Seriously, wow.

All too often, YA books are short, with watered down plots and weak, uninteresting characters. This isn't. It's YA, but highly intelligent, well written, with a shocking premise and gripping plot. It pulled me in from the first sentence and still hasn't let go.

The idea of banning abortion and instead retroactively getting rid of unwanted teenagers by using them as body donors may seem far-fetched, but the explanations given make sense. More than that, once you're ... Read More

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Rating: - Shockingly Good
Imagine life in the future. The Second Civil War, also known as "The Heartland War" has been fought and eventually resolved by certain constitutional amendments known as "The Bill of Life." So while human life may not be touched from conception until the age of thirteen, a child may be retroactively aborted between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. This process, known as "unwinding" doesn't technically end life, but separates all the body parts to be used for medical transplants. In this futuristic society, ... Read More