The Beginning

Amy is one of thirteen clones who were made in Project Crescent.When the scientists there learned the goals of the cloning project,they blew up all the evidence and sent the clones far away,except for Amy,number seven,who was the last one out.Barely surviving,Nancy Candler took her and raised her as her own child. Today Amy number seven is going back to Washington,D.C.The city the project took place.She and Nancy have memories about this place.Good and bod,they are about to face an old enemy.`

This is an essential book for any collectors of the series like me !!. The book flashes between past and present - the past being Nancy's life in DC, and work on project crescent, the present being amy's trip to DC with the year seven class. The good bit is that we can read the whole story of amy's 'creation', as before we've only heard bits of it. Also, it's from Nancy's point of view. Well worth a read !

This book is the best book in the Replica series so far, Ithink. In this book Amy goes on a class trip to the national capital,Washinton, D.C., the place she was "born". In this book Amylearns more about Project Crescent. She also learns more about NancyCandler's life, too. If you have not read this yet, go by it. It'sworth it. This is a MUST READ for all Replica fans.

Amy Candler's seventh grade class is going on their annual class trip, and they have gotten a grant that allows them to travel anywhere in the United States. Amy suggests Washington DC, interested in seeing the place where she was created, the place where scientists, including her 'mother', lives were changed forever. Where it all started, the terror and secrets that have been a part of Amy #7's, a clone, life as long as she has been alive.As well as the story of Amy's trip, we get an insight on Nancy Chandler's life, and why she started working for Project Crescent. Her hopes that her work would someday benefit people like her brother, who's dying from a genetic disease, set her on the path that created the clones. But after meeting another person who worked with the project so many years ago, Amy begins to wonder just how much Nancy has told her . . . and questions her trust in the one person she always thought she'd be safe with.I thought The Beginning was a thrilling read, a book not to be missed by Replica fans. It tells you the full story of Amy's beginning, and the evil leaders of Project Crescent, and is very exciting.

For the annual seventh-grade class trip at Parkside this year, the school has recieved a grant that will enable the students to travel to any destination in the United States. Amy, a student council member, suggests Washington, D.C. - the place where she was "born" as part of the cloning experiment Project Crescent. Amy thinks visiting Washington will give her some insight into her origins. Interspersed with Amy's adventures touring Washington with her classmates are her mother's experiences working on Project Crescent thirteen years ago. Recently finished with graduate school, working to support her little brother Neil, who was dying of a rare genetic disorder, Nancy Candler was searching for work that would actually mean something. She found it on Project Crescent, where she hoped the work she did in genetic engineering would someday help people like Neil. A chance encounter with someone who her mother knew all those years ago makes Amy wonder what Nancy Candler is not telling her. The bitter tale of betrayal that unfolds before her could cost Amy her freedom - and possibly even her life. This was one of my favorite books in the Replica series. It further explored Amy's roots as a clone, explained her mother's motivation in working for the project and then doing everything in her power to cover it up, and just how Nancy Candler came to adopt Amy as her own daughter. A must read for all Replica fans.