num_pages: 336
description: "The Fugitive" meets "Blade Runner" with a Kevin Brooks kick in this heart-stopper about a boy who discovers he's not one hundred percent human.It was just supposed to be a routine exam. But when the doctors snake the fiber-optic tube down Robert Smith's throat, what they discover doesn't make medical sense. Plastic casings. Silver filaments. Moving metal parts. In his naked, anesthetized state on the operating table, Robert hears the surgeons' shocked comments: "What the hell is that?" "It's me," Robert thinks, "and I've got to get out of here." Armed with a stolen automatic and the videotape of his strange organs, he manages to escape, and to embark on an orphan's violent odyssey to find out exactly who--exactly what--he is.
language: English
title: Being
titlecomplete: Being
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Contemporary, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Teen, Young Adult, Romance, Adventure
ratings_count: 2941
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Manchester Book Award 
category: Shortlist, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Carnegie Medal
publisher: Chicken House