PreK-8

Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world where there is no conflict, poverty, injustice, or inequality. Only when he is given his life assignment as The Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community.

In this profound, short chapter book, a boy named Santiago likes to draw in the sand, but he feels sad when his creations are washed away. He decides that when he grows up, he wants to create something lasting. When he comes of age, he leaves in search...