Starters

TitleStarters
Year for Search2012
AuthorsPrice, Lissa
Pagination337 pp.
Date Published2012
PublisherDelacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books
Place PublishedNew York
ISBN Number978-0385-74237-5
KeywordsFemale author, US author
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First of two volumes of a young adult dystopia set after a biological weapon kills everyone between twenty and sixty, with the younger people called Starters and the older ones known as Enders. The young people struggle to survive, and the protagonist learns of a way of earning money by allowing an Ender to temporarily inhabit her body. A malfunction has her inhabiting an Enders body where she learns of the corruption in the system In the sequel, Enders New York: Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books, 2014, she retains memories from the Enders who had inhabited her body and are trying to use her for their own purposes. 

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2012 Price, Lissa. Starters. New York: Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books. 337 pp. PSt 

First of two volumes of a young adult dystopia set after a biological weapon kills everyone between twenty and sixty, with the younger people called Starters and the older ones known as Enders. The young people struggle to survive, and the protagonist learns of a way of earning money by allowing an Ender to temporarily inhabit her body. A malfunction has her inhabiting an Enders body where she learns of the corruption in the system In the sequel, Enders New York: Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books, 2014, she retains memories from the Enders who had inhabited her body and are trying to use her for their own purposes. Female author