ABANDONED. company owned orphanage where the children with disabilities get implants that correct the disabilities but give them a shared consciousness

[Mariah]

I consider this YA book dystopian. I read it somewhere around 1980-82 I think. It starts with a young group of orphans with various physical disabilities in a corporate owned facility. Entire society is corporate owned and there are corporate raids where the people and technology are stolen. This company has 3 A.I. that lives in the computer system
When the company implants the children with a device to cure their disabilities, the children inadvertently also gain a collective conscious. During a corporate raid on this company the 3 A.I. escape into the collective conscious of the children.
I thought it was a newberry winner but could not find it on the website

[Kym]

Just going on your second thread - Brother Jonathan by Crawford Kilian ?

https://www.amazon.com/Brother-Jonath...

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

The info in the other, deleted thread is:

YA book pre1985 children with disabilities that get implant that gives them a shared consciousness

this dystopian society is run by corporations. The children have been given directly to a company by their parents for testing of disability cures. There are 3 artificial intelligence that live in the computer system of that same company. After the children get the implants, the A.I. escape a hostile take over attempt by entering the shared conscious of the children.

[Mariah]

looked like an interesting book but that is not it. thanks for trying

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Mariah, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

[Mariah]

Yes I am. I have nearly given up as my search skills are limited to actual paper it seems. The book would have been published 40 years ago give or take 5 years. I was maybe 10 when I read it.

[Stephen]

This rang a bell with me, but I think the book I remember is Alexander Jablokov's Nimbus, which I think doesn't quite fit. I'm very fuzzy on details, but I'm certain it's not a YA book. IIRC, it does have the group of orphans who are enhanced, although I don't recall them having disabilities, and is in the form of a mystery, when later in life somebody starts killing members of the group.

[Kris]

No response, moving to Abandoned folder.

Mariah (OP) was last active on the site in August 2019.