Replica.
This is an awesome Jack Heath novel about AI. The story begins with a girl waking up and discovering that she is only a head on a shelf and someone who looks exactly like her is tampering with her memories. She sees her dismembered body laying on the floor and everything goes black..
The next time she wakes up her head is reattached to her body and she has more memory. She knows her name is Chloe and she thinks she has been kidnapped but then she works out that she is actually an AI with the real Chloe's memories. Her ability to remove a major body part like her arm and not bleed to death is proof enough.
Chloe 2 has been created to act as a decoy while the real Chloe tries to evades her predators. It has something to do with her father working in a top secret government facility in Canberra and a component that could create a super weapon that he has stolen and hidden in their house.
Fast-paced and choc full of suspense and mystery. This is a great book that kids will enjoy although be prepared to go "Oh!" in one of the first couple of pages. [Also: I DID work out what was really going on in the first few chapters and I wonder if younger readers will too? Or maybe I read too many mysteries?] ( )