Title: Dragonfly Girl
Author: Marti Leimbach
Genre: Young Adult Thriller
Release Date: 23 February 2021
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books/Harper Collins
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Kira Adams has discovered a cure for death — and now her life is in danger.
Things aren’t going well for Kira. At home, she cares for her mother and fends off debt collectors. At school, she’s
awkward and shy. Plus, she may flunk out of she doesn’t
stop obsessing about science, her passion and the one thing she’s good at…very good at.
Desperate to bring in money, she enters a prestigious science contest with a big cash prize. At the awards, Kira draws the attention of celebrated professor, Dr. Gregory Munn (as well as his handsome assistant), eventually leading to a part time job in a top-secret laboratory.
The job is mostly cleaning floors and equipment, but one night, while running her own experiment, she revives a lab rat that has died in her care.
One minute the rat is dead, the next it is not.
Suddenly, she’s the remarkable wunderkind, the girl who can bring back the dead. Everything is going her way. But it turns out that science can be a dangerous business, and Kira is swept up into a world of international rivalry with dark forces that threaten her life.
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EARLY PRAISE
“A thrilling debut with a heroine to root for and an excellent story that will keep surprising readers.”
—School Library Journal
… fast pace and high stakes are engaging … An exciting adventure about a girl in STEM.
—Kirkus Reviews
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marti Leimbach is known for her bestsellers, Dying Young, made into a film starring Julia Roberts, and Daniel Isn’t Talking.
She is interested in neurodiversity and has shared the stage with young inventors at the Human Genome Project the National Autistic Society, and the University of Oxford.
She teaches on the Masters Programme in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford,
Dragonfly Girl is her eighth novel, but her first for young adults.
AUTHOR LINKS
Email: martileimbach@gmail.com
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