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The Factory

by Catherine Egan

A secretive experiment with more at stake than promised

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Awards & Recognition

  • Critical praise

    Kirkus praise: “gripping, fast-paced story with a cliffhanger ending”

    Kirkus describes the book as a “gripping, fast-paced story with a cliffhanger ending.”

AlbakiReads Editorial

A secretive experiment with more at stake than promised

Thirteen-year-old Asher Doyle accepts a paid place in a research program at the Factory, believing it is working on renewable energy. The facility’s exhausted young participants and guarded staff soon make that explanation hard to trust. Asher and the other children try to uncover what the experiment is actually doing and why he was specifically invited. Set within a hidden research facility, the story brings together a child-led mystery and a dystopian exploration of power, exploitation, and the consequences of scientific secrecy.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers ages 9–12 interested in dystopian fiction.
  • For readers who enjoy mysteries involving secret experiments and young characters working together.
  • For readers interested in stories about power, exploitation, and scientific secrecy.

Themes

Power and exploitationScientific secrecyTimeTeamwork

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Book overview

Step inside the Factory in this suspenseful exploration of power, exploitation, and the nature of time that Kirkus calls a "gripping, fast-paced story with a cliffhanger ending," and a "complex beginning to what will surely be a sought-after series"!

 

Thirteen-year-old Asher Doyle is no stranger to misfortune. Bullied at school and struggling with problems at home, he dreams of the day he can leave it all behind him. That's when he receives an unexpected opportunity: an invitation to join the Factory -- a top-secret research facility that's supposedly developing renewable energy -- and Asher will be paid handsomely for his participation. It seems like the answer to all his problems.

But not everything is as it seems at the Factory. The other kids in the program are tired and sullen, almost as if they've had the life sucked out of them, and the staff members are clearly hiding something. What's more, Asher discovers he wasn't chosen at random; someone in the program desperately wants him to participate. Asher can't help but feel that whatever the Factory is doing, it's not what he or any of the other kids signed up for.

To Asher's horror, it turns out that the Factory isn't developing renewable energy at all. So what is the Factory up to, and more important, why? As conditions in the Factory worsen, Asher must team up with the other kids to uncover the sinister truth behind the experiment -- and his personal connection to it -- before someone gets seriously hurt.

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