Catalyst

Jacket Description/Back: You've achieved the impossible. You've broken all the boundaries. What happens when they start fighting back?Tom Raines and his friends at the Pentagonal Spire are in Upper Company now, vying for spots in CamCo. But they soon discover troubling changes: the Spire is under new military control and cadets have suspicious neural processors, the first step in a plan with horrifying worldwide ramifications, and Tom is desperate to stop it. When the enemy comes for Tom, how much can he endure in the battle to save himself? And as the odds of success slip from his grip, is it even worth the fight?In this exhilarating, explosive, and heartrending conclusion to the Insignia trilogy, Catalyst brings Tom and his intelligent, passionate, and brave young friends stunning tests and dangerous confrontations, and through to an impossible future they could never have predicted. Review Quotes: Kincaid s Insignia series has proven science fiction worthy of comparison with Asimov. Readers will be spellbound as they inhale this last chapter.--Booklist (starred review)"Review Quotes: Kincaid s trademark spectacular action sequences and affectionate banter make room for Tom s coming-of-age without compromising what readers have come to love. An unabashedly optimistic denouement is the perfect ending for this series that s unafraid to ask readers to grapple with big ideas.--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Review Quotes: Kincaid's Insignia series has proven science fiction worthy of comparison with Asimov. Readers will be spellbound as they inhale this last chapter.--Booklist (starred review) Review Quotes: Kincaid's trademark spectacular action sequences and affectionate banter make room for Tom's coming-of-age without compromising what readers have come to love. An unabashedly optimistic denouement is the perfect ending for this series that's unafraid to ask readers to grapple with big ideas.--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Review Citations:

School Library Journal 08/01/2014 pg. 101 (EAN 9780062093059, Hardcover)

Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2014 (EAN 9780062093059, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Booklist 09/15/2014 pg. 54 (EAN 9780062093059, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2014 (EAN 9780062093059, Hardcover)

Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2015 (EAN 9780062093059, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Kincaid, S J S. J. Kincaid was born in Alabama, grew up in California, and attended high school in New Hampshire. She also interned for a politician in Washington, DC, and received degrees from universities in Illinois and Ohio, but it was while living beside a haunted graveyard in Edinburgh, Scotland, that she realized she wanted to be a writer. Several years, several manuscripts, and several jobs later, Ms. Kincaid now lives in California, and Catalyst is the conclusion to the Insignia trilogy.