Integrate
By (Author) Adele Jones
Wombat Books
Rhiza Edge
6th September 2023
2nd New edition
Australia
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
Paperback
224
Width 133mm, Height 203mm
Blaine Colton had been trapped in his own body by mitochondrial disease, until revolutionary gene therapy freed him. Just when he thinks he can be a normal teenager, he is told his life-changing procedure was unapproved, making him an illegal GMO. Held at an institute where he's subjected to constant testing, refused contact with his parents and deprived of life-sustaining medication, Blaine begins to suspect something, much bigger than himself, is going on. With his body failing and desperate for answers, he resolves to escape and find Professor Merrick Ramer, the developer of his therapy. But Ramer has vanished and time is running out. Fast.
Adele Jones writes young adult near-science fiction exploring the underbelly of bioethics and confronting teen issues that include disability, self-worth, loss and more. Her first novel Integrate was awarded the 2013 CALEB Prize for unpublished manuscript.