Article 5

Article 5 introduces Ember Miller, a seventeen-year-old navigating a post-war America where the Bill of Rights has been replaced by oppressive Moral Statutes. When her mother is arrested for noncompliance with Article 5, Ember's carefully constructed low-profile life shatters. The arresting officer is Chase Jennings, her first love, now a soldier for the regime. This YA dystopian novel follows Ember's harrowing journey to escape a reformatory, find her mother, and eventually join a resistance movement, all while grappling with betrayal, difficult moral choices, and a rekindled romance. It explores themes of freedom, justice, loyalty, and the power of individual resistance against tyranny. Parents should be aware of prominent themes of violence, peril, character death, and a scene depicting sexual harassment/molestation.

Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller has perfected the art of keeping a low profile in a future society in which Moral Statutes have replaced the Bill of Rights and offenses carry stiff penalties, but when Chase, the only boy she has ever loved, arrests her rebellious mother, Ember must take action.