Cleo Porter and the Body Electric Author:Jake Burt Like everyone else, twelve-year-old Cleo and her parents are sealed in an apartment without windows or doors. They never leave. They never get visitors. Their food is dropped off by drones. So they're safe. Safe from the disease that nearly wiped humans from the earth. Safe from everything. The trade-off? — They're alone. Thus, when... more » they receive a package clearly meant for someone else -- a package containing a substance critical for a stranger's survival -- Cleo is stuck. As a surgeon-in-training, she knows the clock is ticking. But people don't leave their units. Not ever.
Until now. Accompanied by two most unlikely (and inhuman) companions, Cleo dares the impossible. And when she does, she finds a world unlike anything she could have imagined... A world from which she may never return. « less