Teenage polio survivor Rowan Collier is caught in the crossfire of a
secret war against "the unfit." It's 1922, and eugenics--the movement
dedicated to racial purity and "good breeding"--has taken hold in
America. State laws allow institutions to sterilize minorities, the
"feeble-minded," and the poor, while local eugenics councils set up
exhibits at county fairs with "fitter family" contests and propaganda.
After years of being confined to hospitals, Rowan is recruited at
sixteen to play a born cripple in a county fair eugenics exhibit. But
gutsy, outspoken Dorchy befriends Rowan and helps her realize her own
inner strength and bravery. The two escape the fair and end up at a
summer camp on a desolate island run by the New England Eugenics
Council. There they discover something is happening to the children.
Rowan must find a way to stop the horrors on the island…if she can
escape them herself.
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