Legend / Maire Lu / 305 pages

"Money is the most important thing in the world...money can buy you happiness...It'll buy you relief, status, friends, safety...all sorts of things."  Day insists that this is so, but he is no mercenary, rather, he has become a folk hero for the poor and oppressed in the Rupublic.  He has refused to join the Patriots who are fighting the Republic.  When he breaks into the hospital to steal plague antidote for his younger brother, he throws his knife at Metias, a guard of the Republic.  He is accused of killing and Metias's sister, June, is assigned the task of tracking him down and bringing him in for sentencing.  This dystopian novel will appeal to fans of Hunger Games.