Heirloom (Seed Savers)

Jason is ticked that the government put him in foster care and locked up his parents.Arturo's inconsistent English and penchant for mysteriously showing up would be suspicious if he wasn't so darn charming.Clare and Dante just want to garden.Lily, well Lily gets braver by the minute.It's late in the twenty-first century and large corporations have merged with U.S. government agencies to control the nation's food supply. Not only is gardening and seed ownership illegal, but fresh food is unheard of by the masses who are fed the processed food groups of Vitees, Proteins, Carbos, Snacks, and Sweeties.Thirteen-year-old Clare and her brother Dante have escaped to Canada where the old ways still exist. It is there that they make friends with the roguish Jason and learn the political history of their own country's decline of freedoms.Meanwhile, Lily, the friend who was left behind, begins her own journey to find the father she never met—a former leader in the ill-fated Seed Savers...