The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman (9780701186425)

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My name be Ice Cream Fifteen Star and this be the tale of how I bring the cure to all the Nighted States, save every poory children, short for life. Is how a city die for selfish love, and rise from this same smallness. Be how the new America begin, in wars against all hope a country with no power in a world that hate its life. So been the faith I sworn, and it ain t evils in no world nor cruelties in no red hell can change the vally heart of Ice Cream Star. /i> n the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her people survive by scavenging in the detritus of an abandoned civilization. Theirs is a world of children by the time they reach twenty, each of them will die from a disease they call posies. When her brother sickens, Ice Cream sets out on the trail of a cure, led by a stranger whose intentions remain unclear. It s a quest that will lead her to love and heartbreak, to captivity and to a nation s throne, and ultimately into a war that threatens to doom everyone she loves.

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