An urbanish sci fi book

[Mangara]

Hello, I'm trying to find a book we read at school as far as I can remember it involved

- A girl and a boy, separated by a fence?
- A controlling government (dystopia?)
- Something to do with Lobotomies

If anyone has any idea it would be much appreciated.

[kgkoch]

The boy was a mutant, six toe. His father hid him from the government, who wanted to kill him. Yes the government was made up of mutant. Don't forget the cat, the wise old man, the safe, the vest made of money. The boy save the girl, boy and girl run off to the swamp and live happily ever after, kinda.
I remember the story, can't place the name.

[Mangara]

I found someone else looking for it. Here is what they said:

Hopefully someone can help, this has been bugging me for ages. I remember reading a book around ten years ago at school that was based on Romeo and Juliet but was set in the future where poor illiterate people had to live separately to middle class people and it was illegal for people from either society to interact. One of the things kids from the middle-classes liked to do was go slumming it, by illegally drinking in the lower class areas (I remember there was also a drink called a lobotomiser that was popular). The story is about a girl who goes slumming who falls in love with an illiterate boy. I don't remember much else about what happens but at one point in it I think the boy sneaks into the middle-class area by hanging on underneath a rubbish truck.

The most memorable thing about the book was that it was written from alternating points of view between the girl and the boy. So the chapters written by the boy were all like "I mett a pritee gurl. I fink im n luv wiv hur."