“The plot is fun and full of action. A popular choice among teens who love dystopian fiction.” School Library Journal on the paperback edition
Description
In a future where privacy is gone, an Internet innocent gets auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Eighteen-year-old Blanca has lived a sheltered life. Her entire childhood has been spent at Tabula Rasa School where she’s been protected from the Internet. Blanca has never been online and doesn’t even know how to text. Her lack of a virtual footprint has made her extremely valuable, and upon graduation Blanca—and those like her—are sold to the highest bidders.
Blanca is purchased by Cal McNeal, who uses her to achieve personal gain. But the McNeals are soon horrified by just how obedient and non-defiant Blanca is. All those mind-numbing years locked away from society have made her mind almost impenetrable. By the time Blanca is ready to think for herself, she is trapped. Her only chance of escape is to go online.
Praise
“The plot is fun and full of action. A popular choice among teens who love dystopian fiction.” School Library Journal on the paperback edition
Details
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Release Day | Jun 10, 2019 |
| Release Date | June 11, 2019 |
| Number in Series | 1 |
| Series Display String | The Blank Slate Series |
| Release Date Machine | 1560211200 |
| Imprint | Blackstone Publishing |
| Provider | Blackstone Publishing |
| Categories | Teen & Young Adult, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science & Technology, Children/YA, Science Fiction, YA, Fiction - All, Fiction - Child |
Author Bio
Jennifer Bardsley is known online as “The YA Gal” with over 20,000 followers on Facebook. She hosts the weekly instant book club called #TakeALookTuesday where YA Gal friends geek out, share pictures of what they are reading, and chat about books. A long-time resident of Edmonds, Washington, Jennifer writes the column “I Brake for Moms” for the Everett Daily Herald.
Narrator Bio
Katie Schorr is an actor and writer in New York. Her one-woman show, Take Me. Seriously, ran for six months at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and she performs throughout New York in new works at the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Ars Nova, among other theaters. She has appeared on VH1’s Best Week Ever and costars in the web series Head in the Oven with Saturday Night Live actor Bill Hader. Her audiobook credits include narrating the novels in Alyson Noel’s bestselling Immortals series. Of her work on the series, AudioFile magazine has said, “Narrator Katie Schorr has a wonderfully raspy, youthful voice, which she puts to good effect on the cast of teenage characters.”
Overview
In a future where privacy is gone, an Internet innocent gets auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Eighteen-year-old Blanca has lived a sheltered life. Her entire childhood has been spent at Tabula Rasa School where she’s been protected from the Internet. Blanca has never been online and doesn’t even know how to text. Her lack of a virtual footprint has made her extremely valuable, and upon graduation Blanca—and those like her—are sold to the highest bidders.
Blanca is purchased by Cal McNeal, who uses her to achieve personal gain. But the McNeals are soon horrified by just how obedient and non-defiant Blanca is. All those mind-numbing years locked away from society have made her mind almost impenetrable. By the time Blanca is ready to think for herself, she is trapped. Her only chance of escape is to go online.
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