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Expectation of Pain
Juliet Rose, author
Fifteen-year-old, Ishi, discovers the children's island he's been assigned to for as long as he can remember hides secrets darker than he could have ever imagined. Children are going missing at night, robots terrorize the children, their assigned ward seems to have other self-serving motivations. Ishi knows as the oldest child resident, he must escape to try and find help for the children and himself.
Ishi uncovers his doomed fate in becoming sixteen and turns to his only robot friend, Oslo, planning a rescue mission for the children on the island. However, Ishi finds out the world outside isn't any better and he may be bringing hell down upon their heads by exposing the horrors of the island.