Slice the WaterLonglisted, Canada Reads Born on the lush island nation of Mahana, Fred lives under the tyrannical rule of a book burning king. Under the kings rule, Mahanians are controlled by a military dictatorship and threatened with forced starvation, while people with disabilities are exiled. After Freds father suddenly disappears, Fred joins an underground movement of dissenters and becomes an unwitting global icon in the fight for Mahanian freedom. When he is