Origin

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Label

Origin

Statement of responsibility

Jessica Khoury

Creator

• trueKhoury, Jessica, 1990-

Subject

• trueAmazon Valley
• trueDystopias
• trueExperiments
• trueGenetic engineering
• trueImmortality
• Immortality -- Fiction
• trueIndigenous peoples
• Indigenous peoples -- Fiction
• Amazon River Region -- Fiction
• Rain forests -- Fiction
• trueScience
• trueScience -- Experiments
• Science -- Experiments -- Fiction
• trueSeventeen-year-old girls
• trueTeenage girls
• trueTeenage romance
• trueRain forests

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

• "Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal 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. Free in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Together, they embark on a race against time to discover the truth about Pia'sorigin--a truth with deadly consequences that will change their lives forever"--
• "An immortal girl is raised in the depths of the Amazon only to discover that there is more to life than forever"--

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Assigning source

• Provided by publisher
• Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• HL
• 740

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.K5285

LC item number

Ori 2012

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 7
• 12

Target audience

adolescent