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The Girl Who Owned a City

by O.T. Nelson · 1975

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Lisa has lived through a devastating plague that has killed her parents, as well as all of the adults in the world. She and Todd, her younger brother, must compete for survival with roaming, lawless gangs in suburban Chicago. First published in 1975, this gripping novel has more than 200,000 copies in print.

Genre
dystopiascience fictionpost-apocalypticadventurefantasy
Themes
childhoodsurvival
Setting
future
Mood
nostalgia
Audience
young adultchildrensmiddle grade
Length
short · 189 pages
Form
graphic novels

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