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(W/A) Jonathan Case. This graphic novel adventure tells the story of 10-year-old Elvie and her crucial mission to save humanity from extinction after a sun shift has changed life on earth as we know it. It's been fifty years since a sun shift wiped out nearly all mammal life across the earth. Towns and cities are abandoned relics* autonomous machines maintain roadways* and the world is slowly being reclaimed by nature. Isolated pockets of survivors keep to themselves in underground sites* hiding from the lethal sunlight by day and coming above ground at night. 10-year-old Elvie and her caretaker* Flora* a biologist* are the only two humans who can survive during daylight because Flora made an incredible discovery a way to make an antidote to sun sickness using the scales from monarch butterfly wings. Unfortunately* it can only be made in small quantities and has a short shelf life. Free to travel during the day* Elvie and Flora follow monarchs as they migrate across the former Western United States* constantly making new medicine for themselves while trying to find a way to make a vaccine they can share with everyone. Will they discover a way to go from a treatment to a cure and preserve the remains of humanity* or will their efforts be thwarted by disaster and the very people they are trying to save?
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