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Author:

Khoury, Jessica, 1990-

Title:

Origin / Jessica Khoury.

Publisher:

Razorbill an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

393 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Immortality--Juvenile fiction.
Science--Experiments--Juvenile fiction.
Indigenous peoples--Juvenile fiction.
Rain forests--Juvenile fiction.
Amazon River Region--Juvenile fiction.
Immortality--Fiction.
Science--Experiments--Fiction.
Indigenous peoples--Fiction.
Rain forests--Fiction.
Amazon River Region--Fiction.
Immortality--Fiction.
Science--Experiments--Fiction.
Indigenous peoples--Fiction.
Rain forests--Fiction.
Amazon River Region--Fiction.

Summary:

Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest and is genetically engineered to be immortal and be the future of the human race, but on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life.

Indexed by:

School Library Journal, October 2012
Publisher's Weekly, July 2012
Booklist, August 2012
Horn Book, April 2013
Choice, April 2013
Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2012
Kirkus Review, May 2012
Library Media Connection, March 2013
School Library Journal
Publisher's Weekly
Booklist

ISBN:

1595145966
9781595145963 (pbk.)

Locations:

SUPC124 -- Aplington Legion Memorial Library (Aplington)

AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)