Taylor Five (19 page)

There is no Kandah State on the island of Borneo. There is no “dry northeast corner” on Borneo either: my description of the savannah country is based on Baluran National Park in northeast Java. But it’s true that most of the rain forests in Borneo and Sumatra are gone, and it’s true that the orangutans are almost certainly doomed to lose their natural habitat, very soon.

Ann Halam was born and raised in Manchester, England, and after graduating from Sussex University spent some years traveling throughout Southeast Asia. She now lives in Brighton, England, with her husband and her son. As well as being a children’s author, Ann Halam writes adult science fiction and fantasy books, as Gwyneth Jones. Her most recent book for Wendy Lamb Books was
Dr. Franklin’s Island.

Also by Ann Halam

DR. FRANKLIN’S ISLAND

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Copyright © 2004 by Ann Halam

First published in Great Britain by Orion Children’s Books in 2003

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Halam, Ann.

Taylor Five / Ann Halam.

p.         cm.

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Taylor is still dealing with the fact that she is a clone produced by the same company that funds the Orangutan Reserve which is her home on the island of Borneo, when the Reserve is attacked and she flees with her younger brother and Uncle, the Reserve’s mascot.

                  [1. Cloning—Fiction.         2. Brothers and sisters—Fiction.         3. Orangutan—Fiction.         4. Borneo—Fiction.]         I. Title.

PZ7.H1283Tay 2004

[Fic]—dc21

2003007859

eISBN: 978-0-375-89046-8

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