Saving Toni - 2014 ABNA Entry

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Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Entry - this eBook is a sample of the first 3,000-5,000 words; it is not the full book. The ABNA contest is operated on Amazon.com only. Visit this entry on Amazon.com to leave customer feedback. To vote for the Grand Prize winner starting July 8, visit www.amazon.com/ABNA. What would happen if, during her fall through the tunnel, Alice bypassed Wonderland, tore through Charlotte’s Web and landed in the Planet of the Apes? It might look something like this. Twelve-year-old Toni rescues a male piglet from a couple of bullies and falls immediately in love with him. Chopin becomes the family pet. When, a few months later, Chopin disappears into a tunnel, Toni follows and the duo find themselves transported into an alternate universe where pigs, cows and chickens talk and hold power and humans grunt and groan unintelligibly and are treated like animals. After an altercation with a cow, Toni is taken to the local pound and later shipped to a breeding farm—a desperate, windowless factory where hundreds of human girls are kept in tiny stalls, made to bear infants who will be used for meat, and beaten if the farmhands are having a bad day. Desperate to find his best friend, Chopin meets with members of the HLA—Human Liberation Alliance—who agree to help rescue Toni and the other girls. But in a world where humans are commodities and those trying to help them are considered terrorists, this isn’t going to be easy. Saving Toni is an action-filled story of friendship and loss, cruelty and compassion, and one where two characters may find their true purpose.