Toni V. works for the City Five Demolition Crew. His job is pretty simple, break up the concrete and throw it away. The demolition crew is part of a large force of workers who are cleaning up City Five after the war. City Five sustained the most damage. Toni V. is pretty good at his job and he follows the rules. If he finds something useful or valuable under the concrete he tells his supervisor. But this time all he found is a tin can. Toni V. heads to the dumpsters to throw it away when he realizes that there is something inside. He opens it up and finds a book wrapped in a piece of cloth. And he’s even more surprized to see a message written on the piece of cloth. “Dig, dig everywhere!” What could that possibly mean? So, Toni V. breaks the rules. He doesn’t throw it away and he doesn’t turn it in. Instead, he puts the cloth and the book in his pocket. And later that evening, after his blissfully relaxing swim, Toni V opens the book to find another message: “This is the diary of Pelly D. It’s totally secret, so if you’re reading it I HATE YOU ALREADY.” And, of course, Toni V starts reading. At first he finds fascinating stuff about Pelly D.’s spoiled life. Her father is a successful businessman and so her family can afford one of the best apartments in the city. Pelly D is totally popular and beautiful and everyone knows it and she most definitely knows it. It’s not long, though, before Toni V. starts reading stuff that makes him most uncomfortable. Pelly D. keeps talking about gene tags and about the fuss that everyone around her is making about it. You get to be either an A (the top and best gene tag) an M (the still useful gene tag) or a G (the bottom and useless gene tag). And pretty soon everyone who is tagged with a G (that includes Pelly D.!) must go live in a special district in the city, with wires and gates around it so you can’t get out. And most abruptly, the diary ends, to Toni V.’s frustration. Where is Pelly D? What happened to her? But most importantly, in Toni V’s City Five there are only As and Ms. Where did all the Gs go? What happened to them? The Diary of Pelly D is a science fiction version of the Diary of Anne Frank and the Holocaust of WWII.