The Testing Prequel

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The Testing guide
JOELLE CHARBONNEAU
Houghton Mifflin HarcourtBoston New York 
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Copyright © 2013 by Joelle Charbonneau All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003. www.hmhbooks.comeISBN 978-0-544-08478-0v1.0513
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󰁯󰁤󰁡󰁹 󰁩󰁳 󰁴󰁨󰁥 󰁤󰁡󰁹. I lean against the trunk of a thin, healthy tree and watch the sun crest over the horizon. Tirty feet from where I sit, I can see where green grass meets cracked earth. Brown, scrag-gly plants. Te twisted branches of trees that fight for life in the corrupted soil. An area where my father and his team have yet to ply their revitalization efforts. But they will. My father is hoping I’ll be here to help. I have different plans. oday will determine whether all of the studying, pushing myself to learn more, will pay off. It has to. Te wind catches the edges of the papers in my hand and pulls my focus back to where it belongs studying. If I am selected for Te esting today, I need to be prepared. Being ranked first in my colony’s graduating class and being chosen to go to osu City will mean nothing if I am not prepared enough to pass Te esting and continue on to the University. I touch the words on the cover of the booklet in my hands:
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