Second Life of Linus Hoppe

by Anne-Laure Bondoux, Catherine Temerson (Translator)

Overview

After intentionally getting himself expelled from Realm One, Linus Hoppe believed he would experience more of real life. But life in inferior Realm Two is a nightmare. For months Linus has been imprisoned in a factory, where he toils on an assembly line. At night, he’s so tired that he no longer dreams of a future, of the destiny he wanted to create for himself. As for his family and friends, he fears he’ll never see them again. He especially misses Chem and Yosh, his co-conspirators in fooling the Great Processor. What made them think they could change society’s rigid hierarchy? Ready to give up, Linus must somehow regain hope and the will to fight for his freedom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307490629
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	02/19/2009
Series:	Linus Hoppe
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Anne-Laure Bondoux has written several novels for children in her native France, where she lives.

Editorial Reviews

Gr 5-9-Hard manual labor in a miserable Subterranean Training Zone transit home was not the life 14-year-old Linus expected when he switched exam scores to end up in Realm Two in The Destiny of Linus Hoppe (Delacorte, 2005). This story picks up six months after he and Yosh traded places in a Paris of the near future where society is strictly divided into Realms: One is for the elite, Two for the working class, and Three and Four for the social deviants. Linus, considered a failure of the system, faces a brutal future, while Yosh has taken Linus's comfortable place in the Protected Zone. Linus breaks out of the transit home with the assistance of the director's daughter and works with "the organization" to expose the flaws in the classification of society. Obviously translated, the language is stilted and the dialogue is unnatural. The setting, relationships, and most characters were introduced in the first book and are only briefly described here, leaving gaps and questions for readers unfamiliar with the previous title. This is a necessary and neat, if overly hasty and saccharine, conclusion for those who want to know Linus's destiny.-Kelly Vikstrom, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

School Library Journal

In this leaden sequel to The Destiny of Linus Hoppe (April 15, 2005), the young Parisian rebel suffers the consequences of cheating on the compulsory test given to all teenagers in his near-future society. He escapes after months of pointless, exhausting factory labor thanks to a remarkably well organized Resistance, and ultimately plays a small role in exposing corruption at the heart of the Testing Bureau. Echoes of Lois Lowry's The Giver (1993) and Margaret Haddix's Among the Hidden (1998) series are barely discernible beneath the weight of the arbitrary, contrivance-laden plot, the heavy prose-"A powerful, extensive, faceless force was at work, crushing those who opposed it"-and the impenetrable characters. (Science fiction. 11-13)

Kirkus Reviews