Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

Birthmarked

O'Brien, Caragh M.

Birthmarked - pbk. - New York. Square Fish/Roaring Brook Press. 12/21/2012 - 362 p. : map ; 22 cm. - Birthmarked trilogy ; bk. 1. .

In a future world baked dry by the sun and divided into those who live inside the wall and those who live outside it, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is forced into a difficult choice when her parents are arrested and taken into the city.

A Junior Library Guild selection. Includes questions for discussion and questions for the author.

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Midwives -- Fiction.
Dystopias -- Fiction.
Arrest -- Fiction.
Infants -- Fiction.

--Genetic engineering -- Fiction.