Summary:\u00a0When all hope is gone, how do you survive?\u00a0<\/i>Before the war, Eden\u2019s life was easy\u2014air conditioning, ice cream, long days at the beach. Then the revolution happened, and everything changed. Now a powerful group called the Wolfpack controls the earth and its resources. Eden has lost everything to them. They killed her family and her friends, destroyed her home, and imprisoned her. But Eden refuses to die by their hands. She knows the coordinates to the only neutral ground left in the world, a place called Sanctuary Island, and she is desperate to escape to its shores. Eden finally reaches the island and meets others resistant to the Wolves. But their solace is short-lived when one of Eden\u2019s new friends goes missing. Braving the jungle in search of their lost ally, they quickly discover Sanctuary is filled with lethal traps and an enemy they never expected.\u00a0 This island might be deadlier than the world Eden left behind, but surviving it is the only thing that stands between her and freedom. -Goodreads\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The Sandcastle Empire<\/i><\/b> by Kayla Olson starts out quite typically: a girl who lives under a totalitarian rule, her parents dead, suddenly manages to escape her life, running for freedom. And, at its core, this book really is that. The USA has fallen to some evil organization, and the myth of an island of sanctuary permeates. The main character and her newfound band of other escapees try to survive in the wilderness, but it all takes a darker turn when one of them disappears and the others risk life and limb to find her, only to have the lost person show up in a ship with a group of other people. Why did their group member disappear and where did she go?<\/span> Find this book in our catalog: The Sandcastle Empire<\/a><\/p>\n Catalog Number: YA SF OLSON,K<\/p>\n 455 pages<\/p>\n More Recommendations<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" review by John Chon, age 15 The Sandcastle Empire\u00a0by\u00a0Kayla Olson Summary:\u00a0When all hope is gone, how do you survive?\u00a0Before the war, Eden\u2019s life was easy\u2014air conditioning, ice cream, long days at the beach. Then the revolution happened, and everything changed. 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