Monster republic

the long version

Popular and athletic fourteen-year-old Cameron Reilly is on a school trip to a nuclear power plant when an explosion tears him, and his friends, apart. He wakes to find he's been rebuilt with scavenged body parts and bionic implants, and that a sinister scientist has plans for him. Suggested audience: intermediate, junior secondary. An explosion in a nuclear power plant. Kids patched up with scavenged body parts and bionic implants. A growing army of superhuman soldiers programmed for destruction. 'No', whispered Cameron to the monster in the glass. And he watched it shaking its hideous head. 'That's not me. You're not me.' For age 13+.