Birthmarked

Resource Information

The work Birthmarked represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Syracuse Turkey Creek Township Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Birthmarked

Statement of responsibility

Caragh M. O'Brien

Title variation

Birth marked

Creator

• O'Brien, Caragh M
• trueO'Brien, Caragh M.

Subject

• Teenage girls -- Fiction
• trueTeenage girls
• Young adult fiction
• trueArrest
• Arrest -- Fiction
• Babies -- Fiction
• trueDystopian fiction
• trueDystopias
• Dystopias -- Fiction
• Dystopias -- Juvenile fiction
• trueGenetic engineering
• Genetic engineering -- Fiction
• trueInfants
• trueMidwives
• Midwives -- Fiction
• Midwives -- Juvenile fiction
• trueParents
• Parents -- Fiction
• trueScience fiction
• Science fiction
• Science fiction
• trueSixteen-year-old girls
• Sixteen-year-old girls -- Fiction
• trueStone, Gaia (Fictitious character)
• trueSurvival
• Survival -- Fiction
• trueTeenage apprentices

Genre

• Young adult fiction
• trueDystopian fiction
• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• trueScience fiction

Language

eng

Summary

In a future world baked dry by the sun and divided into those who live inside the wall and those who live outside it, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is forced into a difficult choice when her parents are arrested and taken into the city

Member of

• trueBirthmarked trilogy

Theme

• trueClimate change apocalypse

Tone

• trueThought-provoking

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Character

• trueStrong female
• trueSpirited
• trueLikeable

Award

• Amelia Bloomer List, 2011
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2011

Awards note

A Junior Library Guild selection

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 012-up
• HL 800

Intended audience source

• Ingram
• Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.O2754

LC item number

Bir 2010

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

800

Literary form

novels

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 7
• 10

Series statement

Birthmarked trilogy

Series volume

0001

Target audience

adolescent