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Title	:	Earth Girl (Earth Girl #1)
Author	:	Janet Edwards
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 358 pages
Published	:	August 16th 2012 by Harper Voyager
Categories	:	Young Adult. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Romance

Earth Girl (Earth Girl #1) Paperback | Pages: 358 pages

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Jarra is stuck on Earth while the rest of humanity portals around the universe. But can she prove to the norms that she’s more than just an Earth Girl? 2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else portals between worlds, 18-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, she has been abandoned by her parents. She can’t travel to other worlds, but she can watch their vids, and she knows all the jokes they make. She’s an ‘ape’, a ‘throwback’, but this is one ape girl who won’t give in. Jarra invents a fake background for herself – as a normal child of Military parents – and joins a class of norms that is on Earth to excavate the ruins of the old cities. When an ancient skyscraper collapses, burying another research team, Jarra’s role in their rescue puts her in the spotlight. No hiding at back of class now. To make life more complicated, she finds herself falling in love with one of her classmates – a norm from another planet. Somehow, she has to keep the deception going. A freak solar storm strikes the atmosphere, and the class is ordered to portal off-world for safety – no problem for a real child of military parents, but fatal for Jarra. The storm is so bad that the crews of the orbiting solar arrays have to escape to planet below: the first landing from space in 600 years. And one is on collision course with their shelter.

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Original Title:	Earth Girl
ISBN:	0007443498 (ISBN13: 9780007443499)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Earth Girl #1
Characters:	Jarra Reeath, Fian Andrej Eklund
Setting:	Earth,2789 New York State,2789(United States)
Literary Awards:	Bookworm Best Award for Best Fiction (2013)

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Ratings: 3.82 From 5153 Users | 766 Reviews

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Looks dumb, is great fun.One of the jacket reviews calls it "utopian YA" and indeed it's a refreshing shift from the usual misery: conflict and drama ARE possible without everything being horrible all the time! The character voice of course makes a huge difference, and Jarra's is a delight; the world-creation is brilliantly dense and well-thought-out; the infodumps are delivered believably in-story. Even the invented language feels completely natural. It hits all the YA sci fi tropes -

There better be a:1.) Narnia world.2.) Terabithia world.3.) A world for every single Disney movie,4.) I don't know where this list is going

First and foremost, I'd like to thank my good friend since my scanlation days, Kureha, for recommending this book to me, because otherwise, I wouldn't have touched this. Not the book's fault, really. Ever since I read (and vehemently disliked) British author Teri Terry's Slated, I've become wary of English/British YA novels. But thank goodness for angels like my friend, because this novel turned out to be a very pleasant surprise. I loved it! So how do you know if this book is for you? Well,

First things first, this review is from an uncorrected proof copy - the book will be available to buy in the shops on August 16th. The year is 2788 and thanks to the use of portals mankind has now moved out to the stars. Unfortunately, due to a problem with the immune system, a small percentage of humans are only able to survive on Earth. Portalling off planet would mean death unless they can be sent straight back to Earth and hospitalised. These people, know as "handicapped or apes" (amongst

This 1 star rating was only for one reason and this reason was big enough to eclipse all the good things that was happening in this book. Lets start with the good. The world building was great. Descriptions were vivid and although I had no idea how the portals and the multiple planets worked it didn't matter because the story was mostly taking place on earth. The idea was also great and seemed unique with a fresh look in a used setting.Now for the bad. I didn't like the writing. Although I could

3.5 stars This was a really sweet and enjoyable book with a nice feel-good vibe to it.There isn't any contrived plotting or angst thrust upon the characters, just Jarra trying to work out for herself what she is going to do in the situation she has got herself into, and coming to terms with who and what she is. YA SF doesn't often take the path of exploring people trying to live a relatively good life in an upbeat manner and focus just on the characters, so that made for a refreshing change of

Originally reviewed on The Book SmugglersNearly 800 years in the future, Earth and the rest of the universe is a very different place. Thanks to scientist Thaddeus Wallam-Crane, humanity is no longer limited by accelerated particle engines, or the restrictive harness of speed-of-light travel - Wallam-Crane's invention of "portals" mean that humanity can conquer the most distant stars, unrestrained by space and time. Well, that's true for 99.9% of humanity. That remaining fraction, that niggling