But 12-year-old Mallie Ramble, a self-described “fire-popper in a glass jar” with an orange prosthetic arm (a “universal color” that matches no one’s actual skin tone), vows to save her sweet-as-pie little brother from laboring Down Below to pay the Rambles’ debts. Now, by order of the ruling, all-male Guardians, boys must labor in the mines Down Below, and girls become maids for rich valley families. The poverty-stricken citizens of Coal Top, high atop Forgotten Mountain, must “live the stories given.” Once upon a time, Weavers wove wonderful dreams from starlight-until clouds of mood-darkening Dust blotted the stars. A girl with a missing arm must question everything she knows to save her brother.
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