Eve and Adam - Hardcover

Applegate, Katherine; Grant, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312583516 ISBN 13: 9780312583514

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends, 2012

Synopsis

With Eve and Adam, authors Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant team up to create a thrilling story.

In the beginning, there was an apple –

And then there was a car crash, a horrible injury, and a hospital. But before Evening Spiker's head clears a strange boy named Solo is rushing her to her mother's research facility. There, under the best care available, Eve is left alone to heal.

Just when Eve thinks she will die – not from her injuries, but from boredom―her mother gives her a special project: Create the perfect boy.

Using an amazingly detailed simulation, Eve starts building a boy from the ground up. Eve is creating Adam. And he will be just perfect . . . won't he?

About this title

About the Authors

Katherine Applegate is the author of several best-selling young adult series, including Animorphs and Roscoe Riley Rules. Home of the Brave, her first standalone novel, received the SCBWI 2008 Golden Kite Award for Best Fiction and the Bank Street 2008 Josette Frank Award. She lives with her family in Irvine, California.

Michael Grant is the author of BZRK and the bestselling Gone series. He and his wife, Katherine Applegate, are also the authors of the popular Animorphs series. They live in Northern California with their two children.

Reviews

Evening, the daughter of a powerful genetic-engineering visionary, is whisked from the hospital hours after surgeons reattach her leg following a traffic accident. While recovering at her mother’s research facility, Spiker Biopharmaceuticals, Eve meets Solo, the orphaned son of Spiker’s partners, who is collecting damaging information that could take down the whole corporation. Meanwhile, Eve is making some discoveries of her own. First, her leg is flawless mere days after being severed. Then there’s her creation of Adam, a computer that simulates a man from the DNA up. Questions build into a late-night chase around Seattle, a clever rescue of Eve’s troubled friend, and a dramatic and dangerous climax. Solo and Eve, who swap narration duties, have clearly differentiated voices, and when Adam appears in the flesh, he does as well. Too many logical leaps and unanswered questions about the Spiker program could be problematic for dedicated sf fans, but the blend of action and suspense will be welcoming for plenty of others. HIGH-DEMAND NOTE: Grant is behind the best-selling Gone series, and the husband-wife team cowrote the popular Animorphs series. That kind of pedigree moves books. Grades 7-10. --Heather Booth

Edition details

• Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312583516
• ISBN 13: 9780312583514
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304