Seventeen was the age a person qualified for a barcode tattoo. Kayla didn't want one. After her father to his it sparked a deep depression and eventually suicide. A group of kids at school oppose the tattoo on principle. "It's humiliating to be branded like that. It makes me think of the German concentration camps." Kayla joins their group. "It flooded her with sadness, the sense that all freedom and true human dignity were things of the past, that the future held nothing but restrition and conformity." Kayla and her friends discover that everyone's genetic code is tied to the barcode and Global 1 is preparing to "clone only the healthiest - and make it hard for others to survive. Global has stopped the course of natural human evolution." This is a though-provoking book reminiscent of George Orwell's 1984.
"It took intelligence and moral strength to act on principle instead of self-interest."
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