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    Of Better Blood
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    Of Better Blood

    By Susan Moger

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    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, Rowan is recruited at sixteen to play a born cripple in a county fair eugenics exhibit. But gutsy, outspoken Dorchy befriends Rowan and helps her realize her own inner strength and bravery. The two escape the fair and end up at a summer camp on a desolate island run by the New England Eugenics Council. There they discover something is happening to the children. Rowan must find a way to stop the horrors on the island…if she can escape them herself.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAW Teen
    Release dateFeb 1, 2016
    ISBN9780807547755
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    Of Better Blood
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    Susan Moger

    Susan Moger has a graduate degree in history and was a senior editor at Scholastic magazines before becoming a writing instructor. She has written several teaching guides for young people about history, including Teaching the Diary of Anne Frank. She lives in Maryland.

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      I liked this historical fiction about a girl who becomes a pawn in the Eugenics movement, because of polio. The author's note at the end talks about a little of what was happening in the early 20th century--forced sterilization of "unfit" people. "Unfit" being defined as anyone from a broken home, not physically perfect, etc; as you can imagine. I wanted more from this story, but I do think that there are constraints from the time setting that make a difference in how young girls behaved and were treated. Rowan is as strong as she can be for the time. She manages to save herself and others from many dangerous situations.

      My high school students are not that fond of historical fiction. I may put this one in realistic fiction and see if they will read it there.