The Machine
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Twelve year old Sorrow Anderson was taken to the Machine four years too early. She has heard all the horror stories from her sister about the Machine, how it will take you away forever, as it did to the rest of their family, stripping you of your identity. She finds herself instead as a part of an essential but secret system. She has two choices; she can either become what she is expected to be, another drone who keeps the Machine running, or she can fight to keep her life and her identity.
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