false <![CDATA[Shift]]> 3329430 1 In fifteen-year-old Adrian Havocs world, Homestate rules every aspect of society: identity cards need to be carried at all times, evolution is a forbidden topic of discussion, and religious education is enforced in daily rapture doses. If life werent hard enough, now come the threats that the end of the worldSHIFTis quickly approaching. But Adrian refuses to accept things as they are. He sets out for the toxic Deadlands on a trip that may very well alter the course of the universe. In this powerful, thought-provoking, and by turns humorous novel, Charlotte Agell uncovers the painful consequences of war and uncertain governments in an imaginedyet disturbingly realisticworld. 3367423 30 9 2008 Shift total:27|5:2|4:5|3:15|2:4|1:1| 27 84 64 14 4 1 false false Fri Mar 06 07:45:01 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 07:48:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 17:01:35 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 17:13:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 19:14:51 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 19:24:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 16:33:48 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 13:07:14 -0700 2009
Similar to The Giver and World War Z, Shift imagines the northeastern US as governed by right-wing fundamentalists (think Mike Huckabee/Sarah Palin), and where Massachusetts has been blown off the face of the map by su...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 12:04:35 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 10:39:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 11 17:14:28 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 17:14:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Nov 08 17:14:15 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 04 17:59:00 -0800 2009
Title: Shift
Author: Charlotte Agell
Grade: B
Ideal Audience: Boys & Girls 12+

Summary: Adrian lives in a future world. The government, or "Homestate", has pretty much taken over the world, and controls practically every aspec...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 13:39:04 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 13:39:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 16:46:48 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 09:48:29 -0700 2008
Adrian Havoc lives in a world much like our own. Actually it is our world, or could possibly be our world sometime in the future. Somewhere, somehow something went wrong and now h...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Jul 05 15:56:49 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 15:57:23 -0700 2008
"Mom and I have been having the same argument for so many weeks now that we've got it down cold. We can run the long version or the short version, depending on what's up, but it never really changes. It would be funny, if it wasn't boring me to death.
...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 21 20:21:32 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 20:30:47 -0700 2009 My main two problems with the story were that the plot didn't flow very easily, and the characters othe...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 15:46:28 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 20:58:36 -0700 2009 2 0 false true Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 18:17:06 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 29 10:43:51 -0800 2009 Shift has a very interesting, very real premise. The United States has been taken over by conservative Christians and completely transformed into a God-fearing country, or at least a country where you're supposed to be God-fearing and you'll be dealt with severely if you don't keep up that appearan...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 17:50:24 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 17:50:54 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Nov 16 07:12:45 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 07:12:45 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Fri Nov 13 07:12:06 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 07:12:32 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 11 08:14:51 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 08:14:51 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 05 01:11:21 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 01:11:21 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 15 21:32:28 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 09:58:37 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jun 24 08:22:27 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 08:22:27 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3329430