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Trying to remember a book from childhood [SOLVED]

heretoinformheretoinform __BANNED USERS regular
edited October 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
Okay, so I'm trying to remember this book that I read when I was in sixth grade (2001-ish).

I really do apologize for the lack of detail, but I hope one of you will recognize what I am describing. Oh, and the book is almost definitely science fiction.

Plot: A group of people that are renegades. They are trying to bring something down, I think. The group picks up a boy for some reason, and about halfway through, the boy (a teenager i think) becomes intimate with one of the other members of the group. They are fooling around in bed, but they specifically don't have sex because she can't afford to get pregnant (she has to be able to fight).

Sorry, but thats all I remember. And the only solid thing that I remember from that is the whole not having sex thing but still fooling around.

Thanks.

P.S. Yeah, I'm 99% sure it is science fiction and set in the near future.

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  • ilmmadilmmad Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Good to see your young mind focused on what's important.

    Can't help though, sorry.

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  • NatanekoNataneko Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Do you remember if it was "aimed at children" or if it was a regular science fiction book? I'll try to ask my boyfriend, he'd be the kind of person remembering nonsense details. and he reads lots of science fiction. Do you by any chance remember what was on the cover? or not at all?

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  • heretoinformheretoinform __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2008
    Haha, yeah, the sex thing was my first real taste. I kept on turning back to it in secret.

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  • heretoinformheretoinform __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2008
    Nataneko wrote: »
    Do you remember if it was "aimed at children" or if it was a regular science fiction book? I'll try to ask my boyfriend, he'd be the kind of person remembering nonsense details. and he reads lots of science fiction. Do you by any chance remember what was on the cover? or not at all?

    I'm pretty sure it was aimed at children, or young teens.

    The best book I can compare it to is Animorphs (not plot-wise, but relating to size of book and difficulty level).

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  • NeadenNeaden Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Shade's Children?

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  • Pirate ViperPirate Viper Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I am almost positive you are talking about Garth Nix's Children of Shade.

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  • heretoinformheretoinform __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2008
    Sweet, thanks a bunch.

    Thats the book.

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