The Limit

The Limit
By Kristen Landon
Aladdin, 2010. 291 pgs. Young Adult

When his family exceeds its legal debt limit, thirteen-year-old Matt is sent to the Federal Debt Rehabilitation Agency workhouse, where he discovers illicit activities are being carried out using the children who have been placed there.

In the author’s dystopian world, children work to pay off their family’s debt if they go over their allotted monetary limit. When Matt begins to notice that multiple children in his workhouse are getting headaches and he isn’t able to have any contact with the outside world, he decides to figure out once and for all how to improve the living conditions at his workhouse.

This novel was fast paced and had a very intriguing story line. I’m excited to meet Kristen Landon when she comes to the Library for Teen Book Fest on November 12th!

AMM