The Gardener by S.A. Bodeen

I actually intended to post this on July 7th, but I couldn't log in from school and forgot later. This is the same author who wrote the amazing book, The Compound, two years ago. Well, The Gardener wasn't quite as amazing, but it was still very good. It features a young man named Mason who has never known his father and whose mother works in a nursing home. One night, he goes to the nursing home and plays a DVD he has of his father reading The Runaway Bunny to him, and it has a mysterious effect on a beautiful comatose young woman there. Mason has accidentally uncovered the results of an experiment in that this girl is one of several teens who have been altered to produce their own food (autotrophs) as a solution to the world's food shortage. This book was fast-paced and fascinating, but the ending was too quick and clean to be satisfying.