Sharkman Contributor(s): Alten, Steve (Author) |
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ISBN: 1630760196 ISBN-13: 9781630760199 Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Science Fiction - General - Juvenile Fiction | Health & Daily Living - Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Multigenerational |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2014008955 |
Lexile Measure: 980 |
Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.27" W x 9.37" (1.21 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Florida - Ethnic Orientation - Korean - Cultural Region - Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Kwan Wilson was a high school basketball star living in San Diego when a tragic accident changed his life in ways no one could predict. He only looked at his phone for a few seconds, but that was all the time it took to crash his car into a telephone pole, killing his mother and paralyzing him from the waist down. After the accident his father, Admiral Douglas Wilson, sent him off to live with his maternal grandmother in South Florida. Kwan's new principal, anticipating his depression and isolation, tells him about an internship at a genetics lab in Miami that's testing shark stem cells on rats in an effort to cure cancer and repair spinal injuries. Kwan declines--until he learns the beautiful Anya Patel is an intern at the lab. The good news is that the stem cells are curing their rat subjects; the bad news is it alters their DNA so much it kills them. When a promising breakthrough is made, Kwan risks his life and injects himself with the experimental stem cells--altering his destiny and the lives of millions in the process. |
Contributor Bio(s): Alten, Steve: - Email is Meg82159@aol.com. (Can't enter here because email is used for psuedonym "L. A. Knight.") |