Once I started this book I really wanting to neglect grading papers or doing dishes and just sit and read it. Without intending to, she sets off a series of consequences for her family and friends and starts a movement against the system that holds them all hostage. Just before her Last Day speech that will be the beginning of when she has to pay for every word she says, something extraordinary happens and she decides to stay silent. In this world, the privileged few who own words have excessive and ridiculous wealth and people like her family and friends are severely restricted and often consigned into heavy labor for going into deep debt. All Rights Reserved is about Speth is a girl on the verge of adulthood in a world where she will have to pay for every word and gesture that she makes because someone else owns them all.
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