The Great Destroyers
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Zara hugged herself tighter. When did he become this callous? Uncle Red never would have said these things before Mission Metzger. Being cautious was one thing, but accepting Nazi rules was something else entirely.
“Do you understand what I’m saying?” he said.
She said nothing.
“Answer me, Zara.” His eyes bored into her, and she knew she had to reply.
“I understand,” she said.
But she didn’t understand at all.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Richmond, Caroline Tung, author.
Title: The great destroyers / Caroline Tung Richmond.
Description: First edition. | New York : Scholastic Press, 2021. | Audience: Ages 12 and up. | Audience: Grades 7–9. | Summary: Jo Linden lives in a world where there are no atomic weapons, and the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union is played out in the Pax Games, fought with powerful robotic mecha war machines operated by young pilots; Jo needs the prize money to save her father’s mecha repair shop, and keep what is left of her family together, but when competing pilots start dying from poisoning, Jo finds herself caught up in Cold War politics and political conspiracy, and she discovers that it is not only her family’s survival at stake—she may have to prevent World War III.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020046833 (print) | LCCN 2020046834 (ebook) | ISBN 9781338266740 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781338266757 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Mecha (Vehicles)—Juvenile fiction. | Robots—Juvenile fiction. | World politics—Juvenile fiction. | Conspiracies—Juvenile fiction. | Fathers and daughters—Juvenile fiction. | Brothers and sisters—Juvenile fiction. | Alternative histories (Fiction) | Adventure stories. | CYAC: Mecha (Vehicles)—Fiction. | Robots—Fiction. | Conspiracies—Fiction. | Fathers and daughters—Fiction. | Brothers and sisters—Fiction. | Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. | LCGFT: Alternative histories (Fiction) | Action and adventure fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.R39867 Gr 2021 (print) | LCC PZ7.R39867 (ebook) | DDC 813.6 [Fic]—dc23
First edition, August 2021
Excerpt from The Only Thing to Fear by Caroline Tung Richmond. © 2014 Caroline Tung Richmond. The Only Thing to Fear cover art by Phil Falco.
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e-ISBN 978-1-338-26675-7
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