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The Flooded Earth



by
Mardi McConnochie

Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Pajama Press
Imprint
Pajama Press
ISBN
9781772780499

Awards and Honors
2019 Green Earth Book Award Winner, Children's Fiction
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Language: Mild Language, Violence: Mild Violence
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Forty years after Earth was devastated by massive flooding, twins Will and Annalie must flee corrupt authorities and overcome the sea’s dangers to find their missing father.

POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
Language: Mild Language, Violence: Mild Violence

Details

Format

Print

Page Count

336

Trim Size

8" x 5 1/2"

Dewey

F

AR

5.2: points 11

Lexile

750L

Genre

Fiction

Scholastic Reading Counts

18

JLG Release

Feb 2019

Book Genres


Topics

Action and adventure. Adventure and adventurers. Siblings. Brothers and sisters. Transportation. Boats, ships and underwater craft. Dystopian. Science fiction. Friendship.

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Praise & Reviews

Starred or favorable reviews have been received from these periodicals:

Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, The Horn Book Magazine

Horn Book

In this cli-fi novel set in a futuristic world suffering the effects of a catastrophic flood, twins Annalie and Will set sail in search of their father, Spinner, after agents of the dictatorial Admiralty come looking for him. After Will steals back the family’s boat from the Admiralty, he and Annalie (who has run away from boarding school with her only friend, Essie, in tow) grab Graham, the family’s talking parrot, and plot a course for Spinner’s most likely destination. Their sea voyage begins roughly halfway through the book, as they dodge pursuers, evade pirates, and escape from cannibals, all while slowly unraveling the mystery of why Spinner fled. Some answers are revealed by the book’s conclusion, but questions remain, and a betrayal in the final pages sets the characters up for a planned sequel. McConnochie does a fine job of world-building, creating vivid images of abandoned waterfront communities and also developing the technical and governing structures that shape that world. The plot-driven adventure is deepened by interactions and revelations that shape the characters as they make their way across the ocean.

Praise & Reviews

Horn Book

In this cli-fi novel set in a futuristic world suffering the effects of a catastrophic flood, twins Annalie and Will set sail in search of their father, Spinner, after agents of the dictatorial Admiralty come looking for him. After Will steals back the family’s boat from the Admiralty, he and Annalie (who has run away from boarding school with her only friend, Essie, in tow) grab Graham, the family’s talking parrot, and plot a course for Spinner’s most likely destination. Their sea voyage begins roughly halfway through the book, as they dodge pursuers, evade pirates, and escape from cannibals, all while slowly unraveling the mystery of why Spinner fled. Some answers are revealed by the book’s conclusion, but questions remain, and a betrayal in the final pages sets the characters up for a planned sequel. McConnochie does a fine job of world-building, creating vivid images of abandoned waterfront communities and also developing the technical and governing structures that shape that world. The plot-driven adventure is deepened by interactions and revelations that shape the characters as they make their way across the ocean.

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