Lucy : a novel
by Laurence Gonzales
Language: English
New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2010.
307 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780307272607 ; 0307272605
Summary: Jenny Lowe, a primatologist studying chimpanzees, is running for her life with the child of a murdered fellow scientist after a civil war explodes. Jenny grabbing the notebooks of the primatologist who's been killed. She brings the girl to Chicago to await the discovery of her relatives. The girl is fifteen and lovely, her name is Lucy. Realizing that the child has no living relatives, Jenny begins to care for her as her own. When she reads the notebooks written by Lucy's father, she discovers that the adorable, lovely, magical Lucy is the result of an experiment. She is part human, part ape, a hybrid human being.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Lucy-Laurence-Gonzales/dp/0307473902
Sorta like a rock star : a novel
by Matthew Quick
Language: English
New York : Little, Brown, 2010.
355 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780316043526 ; 0316043524
Summary: Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
Available: http://www.amazon.com/Sorta-Like-Rock-Matthew-Quick/dp/0316043532/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1431256509&sr=8-1&keywords=sorta+like+a+rock+star
Nobel genes
Rune Michaels
Language: English
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, ©2010.
181 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9781416912590; 1416912592
Protagonist: boy, approximately 12
Summary: A boy whose manic-depressive mother has always told him that his father won a Nobel Prize, spends his time taking care of her and searching for clues to the identity of the Nobel Prize-winning sperm donor, eventually finding a truth he must learn to accept.
http://www.runemichaels.com/
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