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Number 99

Patrick Cave

Kez is a traveller girl, living with her mum in an old Bedford bus, enjoying life on the open road. Then one day disaster strikes - Kez's mum goes missing, the police raid the site, and before she knows it, Kez has been whisked away into a foster home. Her new foster mother has been takingin children for many years, and in fact Kez is the 99th - and so becomes known as Number 99. With the help of the first foster child - Number 1, now a high-up civil servant - Kez sets out to find what has become of her mother. However, they find their way barred at every turn, and soon realizethere is a high-level conspiracy to stop them finding her. Eventually they discover that Kez's mum had identified an illegal genetically-modified crop of wheat near the site where they lived, and has been spirited away to stop her revealing her knowledge before the crop is safely harvested. Therace to find her is fraught with obstacles and danger, but Kez has a fighting spirit...

GenresAbandoned childrenFictionTransgenic plantsThrillers (Fiction)Young adult fiction

169 pages, 2 editions

English edition · First published 2001 by Oxford University Press · ISBN 9780192752710

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2 editions

English

  • Number 99 · Oxford University Press · 2002 · ISBN 9780192752710 This page
  • Number 99 · Oxford University Press · 2001 · ISBN 9780192718785

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