Melanie is a very special girl. Every morning, she dutifully waits for the soldiers to pick her up from the room. Chaining her to a chair and holding her on the front sight, the soldiers tremble with fear. Melanie jokes, "I don't bite," but no one laughs. Only in this world, where the population of Birmingham is zero, where teeth are a weapon worse than a gun, is a 10-year-old girl capable of terrifying life-worn soldiers. She's just a child... or not? Another title of the novel: "Pandora's Gifts." In 2016, this novel was filmed in the feature film of the same name.