by Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant
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?
"The husband-wife team behind the Animorphs series returns with the first installment of an entertaining saga that pits smart teens against high-tech evildoers and bionic skullduggery." - Kirkus
"Observant, smart, and unencumbered by emotion, this is a tasty read that readers will devour in a flash." - Publishers Weekly
"A stimulating series starter fiction about a new millennium version of creationism." - Barnes and Noble
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Katherine Applegate is the author of many books for children and young adults, include the award-winning Home of the Brave. Her husband, Michael Grant, is the author of the BZRK series and the bestselling Gone series. Together they wrote the popular Animorphs series. They live in Northern California with their two children and numerous unmanageable pets.

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