The Naturals
Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But it's not a skill that she's ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they've begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie.
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Cassie Hobbes works at her grandmother's North Carolina diner and reads strangers almost too easily. Five years after her mother was murdered in their dressing-room trailer, an FBI agent recruits Cassie into the Naturals, a Quantico program of teenagers using their gifts to work cold cases.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes's Naturals series has five books: The Naturals, Killer Instinct, All In, Bad Blood, and Twisted. The series is complete.
Yes. The Naturals is YA mystery, suitable for readers 13 and up. The premise of teenage savants recruited by the FBI is similar to TV's Criminal Minds, with on-page violence but no explicit content.
The Naturals was written by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, published in 2013 by Hyperion Books for Children.
The Naturals is 290 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Naturals takes most readers 4 to 6 hours to finish.
The Naturals is a standalone novel by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, not part of a series.
The Naturals is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.