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I would recommend this book to children from age 11-12+. It is not a light read, but it is interesting and intriguing.

Lia Kahn lives in the future, where clothes are electronic, cars drive themselves and... oh. one important thing. They have invented a way to take the brain out of the body after death and put it in a robot body. These are called Skinners.

Lia was popuar, she had nice friends, knew all the latest fashion, she had everything she could ask for. Until that day that she went to babysit instead of her sister. Now she is supposed to be dead. Heck, sometimes she WANTS to be dead, instead of being in this thing the others put her into. She is a robot. And she is not the same. Everyone treats her differently. Her sister hates her, her friends have abandoned her, and her father wishes that he had made the "right choice". The choice to let her die.

This is a story about finding out who we really are inside, without all the external stuff. Put your friendships to the test.

Suddenly, she realises that maybe she doesn't belong with the "orgs" (the normal people). Maybe she belongs with her own kind. The Skinners.