Nominee for 2010 Oklahoma High School Sequoyah Award ListĢ009/2010 Virginia Readers Choice Award WINNERĢ009/2010 Indiana Rosewater High School Book Award WINNERĢ009/2010 Missouri Gateway Readers Award WINNERĢ010 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award ListĢ009/2010 Vermont Green Mountain Book AwardĢ010 Arizona Grand Canyon Reader Award ListĢ009/2010 Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award List WINNERĢ010-2011 One Book for Nebraska Teens WINNERĢ010-2011 California Young Reader Medal Nomination WINNER OF 2010 Oklahoma Intermediate Sequoyah Award List

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.Ģ008 ALA Top Ten Picks for Reluctant ReadersĢ010 Washington Evergreen YA Book award List WINNER If they can survive until their eighteenth 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. 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. Lev’s unwinding has been planned since his birth, as part of his family’s strict religion. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. 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.

Unwind by neal shusterman