Guided by a dangerous and unlikely mentor, Rio formulates a plan that leads to increasingly treacherous questions about her mother’s death, her own destiny, and the complex system constructed to govern the divide between land and sea. Her life and her city depend on Rio to listen to the voices of the past and to speak long-hidden truths.
Atlantia by Ally Condie
October 8th, 2014 by Dutton Juvenile
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The
Little Mermaid was the
beginning inspiration point for the story of Rio in ATLANTIA. It is, in my
opinion, one of the saddest and most beautiful fairy tales of all. I am one
of the lucky people who encountered what I think of as the real version, the Hans Christian Anderson version, before I
encountered the Disney version. As was so often the case with the good things
in my life, this happened because of my grandmother, Alice Todd Braithwaite.