Truancy: A Novel

Isamu Fukui

Mar 2008 · Truancy Book 1 · Sold by Tor Teen

About this ebook

In an alternate world, in a nameless totalitarian city, the autocratic Mayor rules the school system with an iron fist, with the help of his Educators. Fighting against the Mayor and his repressive Educators is a group of former students called the Truancy, whose goal is to take down the system by any means possible—at any cost.

Against this backdrop, fifteen-year-old Tack is just trying to survive. His days are filled with sadistic teachers, unrelenting schoolwork, and indifferent parents. Things start to look up when he meets Umasi, a mysterious boy who runs a lemonade stand in an uninhabited district.

Then someone close to Tack gets killed in the crossfire between the Educators and the Truants, and Tack swears vengeance. To achieve his purpose, he abandons his old life and joins the Truancy. There, he confronts Zyid, an enigmatic leader with his own plans for Tack. But Tack soon finds himself torn between his desire for vengeance and his growing sympathy for the Truants....

Isamu Fukui wrote Truancy during the summer of his fifteenth year. The author's purpose is not just to entertain, but to make a statement about the futility of the endless cycle of violence in the world as well as the state of the educational system. And, as he put it, "I need to be in school myself if I want to write about it."



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Ratings and reviews

cant get enough of it man...this book is outstanding and just make you never want to stop...i was really bummed out when Noni was not in the last couple of pages i wanted to hear more from her and Tack...them being in a relationship and all. Also..to Isamu Fukui, I see what you did there UMASI...nice job.

I really liked the book, it's a shame there aren't any physical copies of the other two books in my country

Great book if you like action. But why are there so many typos?

About the author

ISAMU FUKUI is a seventeen-year-old junior at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. Fukui first started writing for fun at the age of thirteen. The following year, he won a National Gold Award and a Regional Gold Key in the Science Fiction/Fantasy category of the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition. He lives in New York, New York.