Alien Child (1988)

A young girl, Nita, is being raised by a gentle, furred alien being in an abandoned cryogenics facility, where her embryo was accidentally unfrozen by the alien Llipel. She learns from the facility's "mind," the computer that communicates with her through screens, that in another wing of the building, her guardian's partner, Llare, is raising a human boy also brought to life by mistake.

Despite their guardians' intentions to keep them apart, Nita and the boy, Sven, soon meet and compare notes, and Sven shares a horrible secret that he learned in the facility's library: that all the other humans are gone from the earth as a result of the humans' inability to control their violent tendencies.

Though Sven and Nita are horrified by the truth about human nature, their knowledge of it drives them to embrace fear and violence almost immediately...with consequences that neither of them could have foreseen.

This book could be a little slow at times, but overall it really grabbed me. This book seems to be unfortunatley little-known, it's a shame it doesn't have a larger audience. I'll definitely recommend it to teens looking for a good sci-fi read. ( )