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Newsies meets The Jungle within an all-new stand-alone novel from the writer of Article 5 and The Goblet Arrow. Best friends Colin and Ty live one day at a time - the only path it is possible to survive in Metaltown, where money is in short supply, illness runs rampant, and road rules are the highest law. Along with the other near-starving teens of Metaltown, they work long, grueling hours for pennies at the Small Parts manufacturer, attaching fuses to bombs and manufacturing weapons. When they're proved helpful to the bone, they seek shelter where they can find it, and do it all again the very next day. On the other hand, in the wealthy River District across town, Lena Hampton spends her days and nights learning useless old dialects and the artwork of being a woman, even while secretly studying the intricacies of Hampton Companies, dreaming that one day her father will need her critically and she'll end up being the first woman to perform the family's expansive network of factories and businesses. Colin's, Ty's, and Lena's pathways intersect when Ty is injured face to face and Lena, needy to demonstrate herself, fires her. In a single morning, their dreams of a better future go away, and Colin and Ty must discover a way to change their own lives - and Lena's - into ones that subject.
