How My Brain Ended Up Inside This Box

"When I was born I was so small I was mistaken for a french fry. I was never an ordinary child. My best friend was a seagull. I was also illegal. Artificially intelligent people like me had been banned ever since that thing with the Twelve Elevens. Mother raised me for profit. Buyers and sellers had other plans for me...

Strings

Guinevere Cassedine is an awkward cellist who decided to do something with her life, so she enrolled to Devereaux Academy for the Gifted, a school for kids of many different talents and backgrounds. There she meets Meg and Nathan Pierce, and her life is changed forever.