Earth Girl
Janet Edwards
2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. Eighteen-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, she has been abandoned by her parents. She can’t travel to other worlds, but she can watch their vids, and she knows all the jokes they make. She’s an “ape,” a “throwback,” but this is one ape girl who won’t give in.
Jarra makes up a fake military background for herself and joins a class of norms who are on Earth for a year of practical history studies excavating the dangerous ruins of the old cities. She wants to see their faces when they find out they’ve been fooled into thinking an ape girl was a norm. She isn’t expecting to make friends with the enemy, to risk her life to save norms, or to fall in love.
This is an incredible YA novel! Which, then makes sense that it was one of the choices for the Top Ten Teen Books of 2014. Edwards is an incredible writer--she is more like an adult fiction author, but has concepts for teens.
This Science Fiction story is a new twist on a futuristic Earth, where citizens can portal from continent to continent, and planet to planet. In a future where some babies are born unable to live on other planets, Jarra is stuck on Earth, which seems fine to the reader--we are all stuck on Earth, but she is a second-class citizen, handicapped, disabled. No one wants to interact with those stuck on Earth, which makes Jarra's battle that much stronger. Not only is she trying to make sense of this futuristic world where she doesn't belong, but she is trying to fit in at University where NO one but the teachers and administration know who she really is.
This is the first book of a series, and I can't wait to get my hands on the next one!
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