The Gardener by S A Bodeen

The Gardener by S A Bodeen

Mason has never known his father, but longs to. All he has of him is a DVD of a man whose face is never seen, reading a children's book. One day, on a whim, he plays the DVD for a group of comatose teens at the nursing home where his mother works. One of them, a beautiful girl, responds. Mason learns she is part of a horrible experiment intended to render teenagers into autotrophs--genetically engineered, self-sustaining life-forms who don't need food or water to survive. And before he knows it, Mason is on the run with the girl, and wanted, dead or alive, by the mysterious mastermind of this gruesome plan, who is simply called the Gardener.

Will Mason be forced to destroy the thing he's longed for most?
The Gardener is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

S.A.Bodeen is the author of The Compound, which was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start, an ALA Fast Choice for Young Adults, and a Bank Street Best Children's Novel of the Year. She's also the author of several picture books, including the Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning Elizabeti's Doll. Bodeen grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm. Her earliest pals were cows, whom she named after fictional characters. She went on to volunteer for the Peace Corps in East Africa and has lived in seven states as well as a remote Pacific island since then.

She is a bookworm who who like cheese. She resides in the state of Oregon.