Another nurse carefully transcribed the numbers on a sheet of yellow paper. Her voice was tinny through the mask Kira didn’t know her name. “Core temperature ninety-nine degrees at birth,” said a nurse, scrolling through the thermometer readout. Ariel McAdams, barely eighteen years old. The mother wailed despondently from the hallway, muffled by the glass. The nurses-half of them pregnant as well- recorded the details of its life and death, faceless in bodysuits and gas masks. Kira Walker looked on helplessly while Dr. The average lifespan of a human child, in the time since the Break, was fifty-six hours. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. For information address HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Partials Copyright © 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers All rights reserved. Balzer + Bray is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
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