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In an alternate reality where a person's size directly reflects their wealth, the poorest are rat-sized, and billionaires tower like skyscrapers. Warner and his sister Prayer, tiny and vulnerable, face constant dangersโ€”from stray cats to inadvertent destruction of their home. With no suitable infrastructure for their size, their path to survival lies in 'scaling up' in a world designed to exclude them.

Jesse Andrews presents a sharp, warm social novel exploring inequality, echoing classics like Great Expectations and 1984.
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This young adult novel appeals to readers interested in contemporary social issues and inventive speculative fiction, especially fans of thought-provoking stories about inequality and resilience.

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A pointed, amusing and highly-original story set in an alternate reality wherein every person's physical size is directly proportional to their wealth, by the best-selling author of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

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In an alternate reality a lot like our world, every person's physical size is directly proportional to their wealth. The poorest of the poor are the size of rats, and billionaires are the size of skyscrapers. Warner and his sister Prayer are destitute - and tiny. Their size is not just demeaning, but dangerous: day and night they face mortal dangers that bigger, richer people don't ever have to think about, from being mauled by cats to their house getting stepped on.

There are no cars or phones built small enough for them, or schools or hospitals, for that matter - there's no point, when no one that little has any purchasing power, and when salaried doctors and teachers would never fit in buildings so small.

Warner and Prayer know their only hope is to scale up, but how can two littlepoors survive in a world built against them?

From the bestselling author of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl comes a brilliant, warm, skewering social novel for our times in the tradition of Great Expectations, 1984 and Invisible Man.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760523596

Publisher: A&U Children's

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 March 2018

Country: Australia

Imprint: A&U Children

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 208.0mm

Weight: 414g

Pages: 416

About the Author

Jesse Andrews is a novelist, screenwriter, and former German youth hostel receptionist. He was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Schenley High School and Harvard University. His books include Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2012) and The Haters (2016) and his scripts include the Sundance Grand Jury-prize winning adaptation of his book Me and Earl. He currently lives in Berkeley, California.

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