Birthmarked - Those marked with a code will determine the future, one marked by a star will unravel

In the future, in a world baked dry by the harsh sun, there are those who live inside the wall and those, like sixteen-year-old midwife, Gaia Stone, who live outside. Gaia has always believed it is her duty, with her mother, to hand over a small quota of babies to the Enclave. But when Gaia's mother and father are arrested by the very people they so dutifully serve, Gaia is forced to question everything she has been taught to believe. Gaia's choice is now simple: enter the world of the Enclave to rescue her parents, or die trying.

About the author

Since earning an MA in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, Caragh M. O'Brien has been a high school teacher, an author of romance novels, and now a novelist for teens. Her novels Birthmarked and Prized were named YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults. Birthmarked was also a Junior Library Guild Selection and chosen for the ALA 2011 Amelia Bloomer List.

Product details

• Authors: Caragh M. O'Brien
• Publisher: Macmillan US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2013
• EAN: 9780312674724
• ISBN: 978-0-312-67472-4
• No. of pages: 362
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 210 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 342 g
• Series: Gaia; The Birthmarked Trilogy
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age