Colorado Blue Spruce Award
2015 · Young Adult · Nominee
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SOCIETY MATCHED THEM, BUT LOVE SET THEM FREE
In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.
Cassia has always trusted their choices. It's barely any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one . . . until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path no one else has ever dared follow -- between perfection and passion.
In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.
Cassia has always trusted their choices. It's barely any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one . . . until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path no one else has ever dared follow -- between perfection and passion.
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Awards
Golden Sower Award
2014 · Young Adult · Nominee
California Young Reader Medal
2013 · Young Adult · Winner
Colorado Blue Spruce Award
2013 · Young Adult · Third Place
Evergreen Young Adult Book Award
2013 · Young Adult · Nominee
Grand Canyon Reader Award
2013 · Tween · Nominee
Louisiana Teen Readers' Choice
2013 · Grades 9-12 · Honor Book
Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award
2013 · Grades 6-8 · Winner
Nutmeg Book Award
2013 · Teen · Nominee
Sequoyah Book Award
2013 · High School · Nominee
Virginia Readers Choice Award
2013 · High School · Nominee
Young Reader's Choice Award
2013 · Senior/Grades 10-12 · Nominee
Buckeye Children's Book Award
2012 · Teen · Winner
Delaware Diamonds Award
2012 · Middle School · Nominee
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award
2012 · Grades 9-12 · Honor Book
Florida Teens Read
2012 · Grades 9-12 · Nominee
Gateway Readers Award
2012 · High School · Second Place
Iowa High School Book Award
2012 · Young Adult · Nominee
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
2012 · Young Adult · Winner
Rhode Island Teen Book Award
2012 · Ages 12 & Up · Winner
South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award
2012 · Young Adult · Winner
Volunteer State Book Award
2012 · High School · Winner
Volunteer State Book Award
2012 · Middle School · Runner-Up
Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens
2011 · Fourteen and Up · Recommended
Isinglass Teen Read Award
2011 · Grades 6-8 · Nominee
Texas Lone Star Reading List
2011 · Young Adult · Commended
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