Expiration Day

[Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12-17)]

It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Tania Deeley has always been told that she's a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation. Though she has always been aware of the existence of teknoids, it is not until her first day at the Lady Maud High School for Girls that Tania realizes that her best friend, Sian, may be one. If Sian could be a teknoid, how many others in Tania's life are not real? Wanting to understand what sets teknoids apart from humans, Tania begins to seek answers. But time is running out. For everyone knows that on their eighteenth ''birthdays,'' teknoids must be returned to Oxted -- never to be heard from again.