downsiders

__Downsiders__, by Neal Shusterman ISBN: 0-689-80375-3 c1999 246 pages R.L. 7.2 Points-11

-prologue (pages 1 & 2)....this will lead into the discussion of “topsiders” and “downsiders”
 * Good sections to read aloud:**

Talon, one of our main characters, is a “downsider.” A “downsider” is someone who lives below the city of New York in the abandoned subway system. He, or any of the other “downsiders” are not allowed to venture to the “topside,” or OUR part of the world as we know it. Talon doesn’t obey those rules though and goes to the topside anyway and meets a girl, Lindsay, during the process. When the others from the downside find this out, he is banned from their “community” and has to learn how to survive in a world nothing like his own.
 * Summary:**

YA Fiction--science fiction/fantasy; subways; New York; friends

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