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The Partials Sequence is a book series by Dan Wells.
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The Partials Sequence is a book series by Dan Wells.
Isolation is the prequel to the Partials Sequence. [1]
Partials was published on February 28, 2012 by the HarperCollins imprint Balzer & Bray. [2] Common Sense Media gave Partials a five star rating and recommended the book for readers age fourteen and up. [3] The Los Angeles Times noted that although the book is young adult fiction, older readers may enjoy the book as well. [4] The protagonist of the story is Kira Walker. [5] The story is set in a dystopian world where the only living human beings left are in Long Island, New York. [6] In the story, "Partials" are humans that were engineered to be weapons. [7] In Slate, Chelsey Philpot compared the book to Megan McCafferty's book Thumped and Anna Carey's Eve. [8] The book is 480 pages long. [9]
Fragments was published on February 26, 2013 by the HarperCollins imprint Balzer & Bray. [10] Common Sense Media gave Fragments a five star rating and recommended the book for readers age fourteen and up. [11] Fragments follows Kira as she searches for the remains of a company called ParaGen. [12] Kira allies herself with two Partials during her journey through the wasteland. [13]
Ruins was published on March 11, 2014 by the HarperCollins imprint Balzer & Bray. [14] Common Sense Media gave Ruins a five star rating and recommended the book for readers age fourteen and up. [15] The book is 464 pages long. [16] Ruins was a finalist in the Young Adult Speculative Novel category of the 2014 AML Awards. [17] [18]
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Messenger is a 2004 young adult dystopian novel by American author Lois Lowry, as is the third installment of The Giver Quartet, which began with the 1993 Newbery Medal-winning novel The Giver. The story takes place about six years after the events of The Giver, and the events of Gathering Blue, the preceding novel in the series. Characters from both of the previous books reappear in Messenger and give the novels a stronger continuity.
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