Of Better Blood

by Susan Moger

Book Overview

Teenage polio survivor Rowan Collier is caught in the crossfire of a secret war against "the unfit." It's 1922, and eugenics--the movement dedicated to racial purity and good breeding--has taken hold in America. State laws allow institutions to sterilize minorities, the "feeble-minded," and the poor, while local eugenics councils set up exhibits at county fairs with "fitter family" contests and propaganda. After years of being confined to hospitals,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807547743
• ISBN13: 9780807547748
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Aw Teen
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary