This book the unwanteds is the best book every. The book is that every year in quill their town thirteen year olds are sorted into categories: The strong, intelligent wanteds go to university and the artistic unwanteds go to their graves.
On the day of Purge, identical twins Alex and Aaron Stowe await their fate. While Aaron is hopeful becoming a wanted, Alex knows his chances are slim. He has been caught drawing with a stick in the mud and in the stark grey land of Quill, being creative is a death sentence.
But when Alex and the other unwanteds face the Eliminators, the discover an eccentric magician named Mr. Today and his hidden world that exists to save the condemned children. Artimé is a colorful place of talking uncommon creatures, and artistic magic, were creativity is considered a gift and a … weapon.