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Pure
by
Karen Krossing (Goodreads Author)
With the potential for cloning already a reality, today's teens will soon have to face some major ethical questions. Who has a right to determine a person's genetic make-up? And how will we treat our genetic underclass? In Pure, fifteen-year-old Lenni is a gifted healer to some and to others only skidge-an illegal genetic experiment gone horribly wrong. Set in a future whe...more
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Published
March 1st 2006
by Second Story Press
(first published March 1st 2005)
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Grade 9 Up-Lenni, 15, resides in a future world that demands perfection and unaltered DNA. She lives in Dawn, a sterile, gray city watched by Purity guards who are unaccepting of individuality or flaws. Any human who is discovered to be skidge (slang for genetically engineered) is sent to work camps or, even worse, to the Beyond. After she learns that she is skidge, her life changes dramatically. While this new knowledge explains her special ability to heal, it also m...more
Grade 9 Up-Lenni, 15, resides in a future world that demands perfection and unaltered DNA. She lives in Dawn, a sterile, gray city watched by Purity guards who are unaccepting of individuality or flaws. Any human who is discovered to be skidge (slang for genetically engineered) is sent to work camps or, even worse, to the Beyond. After she learns that she is skidge, her life changes dramatically. While this new knowledge explains her special ability to heal, it also m...more
This book was strange. I can't say it was horrible, because it had it's good moments, but a lot of the book felt forced. Plotline is not terribly original. Having said that, it was not downright horrible, and it's possible that I just do not connect well with the plot or the main character.
An enjoyable light sf story about a society that regulates genetic purity, and a young woman who discovers an ability she shouldn't have. This author has the absolute worst book covers, though!
Feb 04, 2013
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I grew up in Thornhill, Ontario, with a family who loved to read. What could I do but read too? I began to create stories and comic books when I was eight, and I continued this habit by writing poetry in high school. By then I was hooked on books, so I studied English at university then became a book editor and a technical writer. After I had kids, I began writing fiction for children and teens. I...more
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