Perfected by Kate Jarvik Birch

Ella has been bred to be the perfect pet.  She is quiet, graceful, stays when told, and performs on command.  No need to clean up after her or feed her, she can clean up and feed herself.  She’s even potty trained.  The hitch?  Ella is human.  In a world where cloned humans can be bought, sold & treated as pets, Ella finds herself living with a rich family as a playmate for their only daughter.  But as Ella begins to have dangerous thoughts of her own, will she survive to live her life, or will she discover what is behind the red door?

Content Notes:                       

This book alludes to sexual content and is about human pets. 

Teacher Notes:

This was a book I had to seriously think about when I finished reading. I found it disturbing that a book would be written about human pets, which are essentially slaves.  Even though these pets were cloned, they were still human and I had a hard time with the concept & how the characters in the story justified this.  I honestly wouldn’t recommend this to a student to read.