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As I started out reading this book, I realized that very specific events were being mirrored here. For instance, When Callum and the other naught kids try to get into the school on their first day, and are physically and verbally assaulted. This exact thing happened during the American civil rights movement, and in my group this started some serious debate on whether this book was set in the US or in England. The author is British, and several British slang words are used, but i think the strong allusions to events and people involved in the American Civil rights movement makes the fact that they live in a more American society more convincing. I hope that the entire book won't be a retelling of events that have already happened, I was hoping for more original material. Other then that the book starts off very easy to understand and read, which is a nice change from the denser books we've been reading this year.