Awards and Honors2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Fiction and Poetry; 2009 Printz Award, Honor Book; 2009 ALA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults; 2009 Booklist Top 10 SF/Fantasy for Youth; 2008 Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth; 2008 Horn Book Fanfare, Best Fiction for Teens; 2008 Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, Children’s Fiction; 2008 School Library Journal Best Books, Fiction
Mau is canoeing alone when he gets caught in a giant wave that also hits his home island. He survives to discover that his entire village has been destroyed and everyone killed. Ermintrude is traveling to see her father, heir to the throne of England, when the wave deposits her ship on Mau's island; like Mau, she is the sole survivor. The pair must not only learn to understand each other and survive together, they must also make sense of the mysterious, insistent voices of Mau's ancestors, which hold powerful secrets about the island's past. Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. A 2009 Michael L. Printz Honor Book.
Your middle-school readers will thrill to new futures, fantasy realms, and alternate realities. Readers will look forward to discovering a new world monthly with the 14 books in this category.