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    Never Weres, The
    Never Weres, The
    Never Weres, The
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    Never Weres, The

    By Fiona Smyth

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    Late in the next century, the human race is on the verge of extinction. A mysterious virus has resulted in no births in almost a generation. Despite the impending doom, three urban teenagers try to live their lives with hope.

    Mia strives to preserve humanity’s compassion through her art and her volunteer work with the “oldies.” Tech-savvy Xian spends her time tinkering with the robots she’s sure will inherit the Earth. Jesse, the son of geneticists, is convinced the future lies with cloning, but society is reeling from the grotesque failures of previous attempts. When the friends stumble upon the 60-year-old mystery of a missing girl, it leads them to the world’s only successful clone — and the key to saving our species.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnnick Press
    Release dateFeb 1, 2011
    ISBN9781554514175
    Never Weres, The
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    Fiona Smyth

    Fiona Smyth is a Toronto-based illustrator whose work has been published across North America. The Never Weres is her first graphic novel for young people.

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      Three 10th-graders--Mia, Xian, and Jesse--are among the last generation on Earth. The Barren virus struck 15 years ago, leaving humanity no way to go on without cloning. Unfortunately, attempts at human cloning have thus far all gone very, very wrong, and subsequent attempts have been outlawed.

      Xian's explorations of abandoned tunnels yield a mystery: an odd symbol on walls throughout the tunnels, centered near an abandoned lab. Mia notices the same symbol in old news footage about a missing teenager from 60 years earlier; it's not long before they put the symbol together and know there's a connection between the lab and the missing girl. Jesse and his mom work with genetics, and his mom may know something about the lab near where the symbols are most concentrated. Together the three teens can solve the mystery of the missing girl, and in the process maybe save humanity.

      Humanity is slowly sliding into old age; it's been a decade and a half since any new children have been born. It's only a matter of time before humanity disappears. Cloning is the only answer, but the technology to clone humans has stalled somewhere along the way.

      The direness of the situation isn't really conveyed by the rather cute artwork. Perfectly fine for middle-schoolers; high school students will probably find a lot of this trite. The captions are provided by a robotic narrator, but the captions are somewhat redundant to the rest of the panels.

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