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A review by 13iscute
Children of Jubilee by Margaret Peterson Haddix
3.0
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The kids try to hide from the Enforcers who have invaded Refuge City, but they are caught and beamed to an alien planet, where they are slaves whose bodies are controlled by Enforcers every day to mine mysterious little pearls. At night, they try to figure out how to escape. They meet the alien race who once inhabited this planet, imprisoned on the other side. They look like giant slugs, but they are dying out because of how the Enforcers have treated them. They come up with a plan to escape, but Kiandra has to execute the first part by herself, as her friends become sick with the planet's plague. She has to try to trick the mind control to gather 8 of the powerful pearls, but can only get 6 after a day of work. But they have to escape that night. Somehow it works, and they escape with the head alien to the nearby spaceship and fly into space (really? they just left the spaceship, unused, next to the jail?) They make it to the intergalactic council, where they plead their case. In the intergalactic court, everyone sees everyone as their own species... until Kiandra breaks the glass, letting out the gas that causes this, letting everyone see each other as they really are. This causes the Enforcers and the Freds to realize they have taken on the traits of each other (since their appearance morphs with their characteristics). But this causes them to realize their folly, and things are restored to the proper order. Kiandra, Rosi, and their families and friends come to build a new life for themselves on the alien planet.
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This series was all over the places. It started in a mysterious dystopia, moved to a futuristic city, and ended up on a different planet. It also had three different narrators! This one was narrated by Kiandra, a character we didn't even know in the first book. But that was pretty neat, I thought.The kids try to hide from the Enforcers who have invaded Refuge City, but they are caught and beamed to an alien planet, where they are slaves whose bodies are controlled by Enforcers every day to mine mysterious little pearls. At night, they try to figure out how to escape. They meet the alien race who once inhabited this planet, imprisoned on the other side. They look like giant slugs, but they are dying out because of how the Enforcers have treated them. They come up with a plan to escape, but Kiandra has to execute the first part by herself, as her friends become sick with the planet's plague. She has to try to trick the mind control to gather 8 of the powerful pearls, but can only get 6 after a day of work. But they have to escape that night. Somehow it works, and they escape with the head alien to the nearby spaceship and fly into space (really? they just left the spaceship, unused, next to the jail?) They make it to the intergalactic council, where they plead their case. In the intergalactic court, everyone sees everyone as their own species... until Kiandra breaks the glass, letting out the gas that causes this, letting everyone see each other as they really are. This causes the Enforcers and the Freds to realize they have taken on the traits of each other (since their appearance morphs with their characteristics). But this causes them to realize their folly, and things are restored to the proper order. Kiandra, Rosi, and their families and friends come to build a new life for themselves on the alien planet.