A helicopter full of the Surety, who are in town for protection of the factory and town, appears almost immediately and next thing Eli knows he's waking up at home being told that Randy is moving to his grandparents' house in Colorado. But as soon as they get near the town boundary, Eli starts to get very sick. Randy is Eli's best friend, and Randy really wants to show him this old sports car so off they go. Eli has never set foot outside the town before, he's never really had a reason to. Everything seems perfect, until Eli's friend Randy convinces him to check out an old car he found outside the city limits. There will be the yearly water polo game, the presentation of the kids' Serenity projects, a picnic, and fireworks. They're all preparing for Serenity Day, the day the town celebrates the founding of this model, crime-free, honesty-based town by FDR in 1934. Eli is one of a handful of kids his age in the town. There's no crime, and honesty is engrained in everyone so much many things, like tests, are done on the honor system. No one goes hungry, and in fact, everyone has enough money for their own pools, basketball courts, etc. Most people work for the orange traffic cone production factory.
Serenity, NM is a calm and peaceful place. There's a couple cuts and scrapes, but nothing super serious. Because of their fugitive status, the kids end up breaking and entering a few times and stealing things.
Definitely need book three to come out sooner! Major cliffhanger ending! Still an exciting read for middle graders with a bit of a twist at the end. At times it stretched belief a bit, and because of that I didn't like it as much as the first one. The kids are constantly going out of the frying pan into the fire. Can they beat their genes or does each step take them closer to proving their genetic destiny? Along the way they discover that it isn't easy for kids on the run who have no they can trust to stay above the law. But now what? Where can they go to get help? Their search for an ally will take them all the way to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, back to Serenity and off to Texas. Eli, Malik, Tori, and Amber have escaped from Serenity and the Osiris Experiment.
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