The Gardener (Caldecott Honor Award) - Sarah S...

Seiten: 32, Gebundene Ausgabe, Farrar Straus & Giroux

Mason has never known his father, but longs to. All he has of him is a DVD of a man whose face is never seen, reading a children´s book. One day, on a whim, he plays the DVD for a group of comatose teens at the nursing home where his mother works. One of them, a beautiful girl, responds. Mason learns she is part of an experiment intended to render teenagers into autotrophs?genetically engineered, self-sustaining life-forms who don?t need food or water to survive. And before he knows it, Ma

Mason has never known his father, but longs to. All he has of him is a DVD of a man whose face is never seen, reading a children´s book. One day, on a whim, he plays the DVD for a group of comatose teens at the nursing home where his mother works. One of them, a beautiful girl, responds. Mason learns she is part of an experiment intended to render teenagers into autotrophs?genetically engineered, self-sustaining life-forms who don?t need food or water to survive. And before he knows it, Ma