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The Girl with All the Gifts

  • 416 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 2014
  • 20 editions

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1 About this book

Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh. Melanie loves school.

She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children's cells. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. Melanie doesn't know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad. The Girl with All the Gifts is a sensational thriller, perfect for fans of Stephen King, Justin Cronin and Neil Gaiman.

Good for readers who want: a coming-of-age story, adventure, and a survival story.

  • Thrillers
  • Survival
  • Coming of age
  • Adventure
  • Horror
  • Zombies
  • Teachers
  • Self-reliance

2 About Mike Carey

Born 1959

Michael James Carey (born 1959), also known by his pen name M. R. Carey, is a British writer of comic books, novels and films, whose credits include the long-running The Sandman spin-off series Lucifer, a three-year stint on Hellblazer, as well as his creator-owned titles Crossing Midnight and The Unwritten for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, a lengthy run on Marvel's X-Men, the 2014 novel The Girl with All the Gifts and its 2016 film adaptation.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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