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- 0:00Speaker 1: Nobody knows what the truth is anymore. Well, that's what
- 0:03Speaker 1: this book is about, is the truth worth looking for.
- 0:07Speaker 1: It's a dystopian tale where you know, the fifteen minute
- 0:11Speaker 1: cities have happened, and everybody lives in these dystopian kind
- 0:16Speaker 1: of communities, and the rebels are the ones who don't
- 0:20Speaker 1: accept the history and don't accept this way of life,
- 0:25Speaker 1: and all they're trying to do is just you know,
- 0:28Speaker 1: you find out through the book. They're just trying to
- 0:30Speaker 1: put a library together. But books have been banned, knowledge
- 0:33Speaker 1: has been squashed, everything has been erased, and these kids
- 0:39Speaker 1: are having to make a choice. Do I go with
- 0:41Speaker 1: the system or do I actually pursue the truth which
- 0:46Speaker 1: could get me killed and all my family killed? And
- 0:49Speaker 1: is it worth it? And hopefully these teens, we've written
- 0:53Speaker 1: it in such a way that they will be interested
- 0:55Speaker 1: and want to go find out more about history.