Katy Warner

Santee lives in the poorer, more crime filled area of her city. One day she goes out with a new boy Zac ( or Z) at school to a park on the other side of the city. His car breaks down and they are stuck in the bush overnight. When they finally hitch a ride back to the city, they find a wall erected between Santee's side of the city and Z's and Santee cannot get home.
This is a dystopian world where everyone is spying on everyone else so that they don't fall out of favour with the all powerful leader. Santee's father is supposedly in prison for doing just that but Santee believes he might of been killed. This is what happens when good people do nothing.
With so many echoes of the cold war and the rise and fall of the Berlin wall, this is an interesting book set in Australia. My only issue with it was that it was terribly depressing for 90% of the text and the ending was terribly abrupt.… (altro)