Diana McCaulay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"McCaulay's prose is lyrical. A solemn adventure about resolve, loyalty, and family, that gives readers insight into life in a small fishing community and brings to light the dangers marine life face in the wild." - School Library Journal
"The relationships between boy and elder, man and sea, crime and poverty all lift McCaulay's first children's novel into a different league. Beautiful." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"The heartbreaking realism...
Author
Language
English
Description
It is 2084. Climate change has made life on the Caribbean island of Bajacu a gruelling trial. The sun is so hot that people must sleep in the day and live and work at night. In a world of desperate scarcity, people who reach forty are expendable. Those who still survive in the cities and towns are ruled over by the brutal, fascistic Domins, and the order has gone out for another evacuation to less sea-threatened parts of the capital. Sorrel can take...