Rust In The Root

ISBN-10: 0063038234
ISBN-13: 9780063038233
Author: Ireland, Justina
Interest Level: 9-12
Publisher: HarperCollins

Publication Date: September 2023

Copyright: 2022

Page Count: 448

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Grades 9-12

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BISAC Subjects

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy / Historical *

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century *

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American *

Description
It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided - between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. And everyone knows the future is industry and technology, otherwise known as Mechomancy, not the traditional mystical arts...Laura disagrees. A talented young queer mage from Pennsylvania, Laura hopped a portal to New York City on her seventeenth birthday with hopes of earning her mage?s license and becoming something more than a rootworker. But four months later, she?s got little to show for it other than an empty pocket and broken dreams. With nowhere else to turn, Laura applies for a job with the Bureau of the Arcane?s Conservation Corps, a branch of the US government dedicated to repairing the Dynamism so that Mechomancy can thrive. There, she meets the Skylark, a powerful mage with a mysterious past, who reluctantly ta
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