Salvage by Alexandra Duncan

Interest Level: Young Adult

Reading Level: 4.6 grade

Lexile: 730 HL

Genre: Dystopian Science Fiction

Currently on pg. 302, chapter 23

Ava is the captain's daughter. This allows her limited freedom and a certain status on the deep space merchant ship, the Parastrata, and its rigid society. The ship's male-dominated society means that Ava and the women of the Parastrata cannot read or write. When Ava learns she is to be traded in marriage to another merchant ship, she hopes for the best. After all, she is the captain's daughter. But instead, betrayal, banishment, and a brush with love and death are what lays ahead. Ava stows away on a mail sloop bound for Earth in order to escape both her past and her future. A life in deep space has made her body unable to withstand the forces of gravity and it almost kills her. She is taken in by a stranger and that stranger's daughter whom have a floating cabin on the Gyre, a huge mass of scrap and garbage in the Pacific Ocean. This dystopian science fiction focuses on family, self-reliance, and self-esteem. I am enjoying the book. It has entered into the "care it around with me" category.