A girl growing up in an insulated though pleasant environment, with a furry guardian for company, comes to realize that she must be the last human left on earth.
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On Nita's 15th birthday, her alien guardian Llipel reveals the story of her birth. Llipel and her companion, Llare, landed on Earth and discovered the Institute, a place founded before the last series of wars had killed off the human population. Llipel stumbled into a storeroom, full of thousands of fertilized human-egg cells. A careless word, as interpreted by the computer that maintained the storeroom, started Nita's life. Llare made the same blunder and became guardian to a boy only a little older than Nita. She and Sven are the last humansexcept for the unbornin the world. Together they learn the horrible truth about their ancestors, a race of creatures that destroyed itself by war. Nita and Sven hold in their hands the power to reform humanity or to let it die. This finely crafted work never falters with false resolution; the children don't find any survivors, though they look, and they do not fall in love or react in ways inappropriate to their socialization. An honest and compelling examination of "What if. . . ?" Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Grade 7 Up This story of Nita, a girl growing up in an insulated environment where she gradually comes to realize that she might be the last person left on Earth, has conflict and suspense from the beginning. Despite the enclosed set ting, there is absorbing interaction be tween the curious child seeking more knowledge about her origin and her world and the furry alien who acts as her protective guardian. Llipel is well portrayed as an intriguing example of an extraterrestrial species. Nina's tur bulent feelings are vividly depicted; she longs for others of her kind but is strangely repulsed when she first learns from the computer the clinical details of human reproduction. She is also ex tremely puzzled by the changes in her body as she enters puberty, having no peers with whom to discuss or com pare. Then Llipel's mysterious alien companion, who remains concealed in the locked west wing, turns out to be raising another human, a boy. When he and Nita finally get together and find that they are in an embryological insti tute where they were both started as test-tube babies, the plot is propelled along at a faster pace. After a danger ous and courageous trip outside to try to find other survivors, the two teens find the answers they seek as well as a new optimism for the future of humani ty, supplying an appropriate conclusion to both the story and their moral self- questioning. Lyle Blake Smythers, Li brary of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This is one of several books that I read as a child and remembered for years after. I am glad to have found it again.
The plot is unusual, with several startling twists and revelations. Even though it was written for young adults, this book is well worth reading, no matter your age! I don't want to give anything away, but essentially, a young woman has been raised by an alien on a deserted Earth. Her guardian cannot answer her many questions and so she lives frustrated and lonely. But then she discovers they are not alone, after all...
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Nice teen novel,
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I read this a long time ago in middle school. It's a unique tale set in what is apparently a post-apocalyptic Earth, since the child mentioned in the title of this book is the only one of her kind. She is raised by an alien, and has never met anyone else, and her education is given to her via the alien and by the computers in the place she is living in. This is by no means an adult book, and was written for the 'Young Adult' audience. I remember enjoying it. The girl doesn't spend her whole existence alone - this book has a couple of pretty cool surprises that keep it interesting - though perhaps if you're a sci-fi buff, you might not find later events so surprising. Overall, a decent four out of five stars for a fun YA sci-fi book.
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