currency book

In a land where your caste is tattooed on your arm, it''''s hard to become more than you were born to be. Eleven-year-old Jeremiah can''''t hide the fact that he''''s a peasant farmer, but he doesn''''t want to be a farmer. There''''s only a sliver of a chance of changing the future. Over a hundred years ago, a pact was created to stop a war. The islanders were promised yearly competitions that would give youth aged 10-16 the chance to raise their family''''s status, but the system has never allowed anyone to succeed.