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出版Tate Publishing, 2010-06
主題Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / GeneralJuvenile Fiction / Science Fiction / General
ISBN16156678739781615667871
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bsTA7gJ9Y0wC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Fluorescent lights greets her every morning. Her stainless steel environ dully reflects it into her blurry eyes as she sits up. The black mood she went to sleep in still angrily drones in her ears, dulling the artificial light even more. A beep sounds and the door to her living area swishes open; the ten-year-old gives the sterile machinery surrounding her cot one last derisive glare before shuffling out the door and into a common room containing several other children like her. They areCellies, humans with mutating cells that give them super powers. Monica doesn't spare a glance for her fellow captives this morning. Her shadowed gaze stays on the two-way mirror. She knows he's behind the reflection of misery staring back at her—but so is freedom. Today, Monica decides, she will taste freedom. New author Laura Butler breathes life into a familiar genre, creating a myriad of characters to populate her version of modern-day America. Against the backdrop of modern political correctness, Butler's Americans are forced to face a new race of humans that can run away from a murder scene at the speed of light and can effortlessly fling a car off a trapped human being—or onto one. Monica's life as a human lab rat is a result of the bigotry against Cellies. Determined to find a cure, Dr. Sam Brady captures Cellie children around the world, performing tests on them in his lab. Equally as determined, Monica finally achieves the freedom she desires, but with her release comes new challenges. A mutation of the common cold that gives regular humans Cellie powers is sweeping the nation, and the attack on Cellies has heated up like never before to find a cure, and a scapegoat. Recruited by a man who requests to be called 'Boss' and taken to a place known only as 'B,' Monica is thrust into the ranks of Cellie children as powerful as herself in a race to contain the virus and find the one who unleashed it before it is too late for allCellies.