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Description for Floodland
Paperback. Prize-winning debut novel about surviving in a devastated world. Illustrator(s): Sedgwick, Marcus. Num Pages: 128 pages, 21. BIC Classification: 5AK; YFB. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 196 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 128.
A gripping, prizewinning novel about a girl surviving in a devastated world.
Imagine that a few years from now England is covered by water, and Norwich is an island.
Zoe, left behind in the confusion when her parents escaped, survives there as best she can. Alone and desperate among marauding gangs, she manages to dig a derelict boat out of the mud and gets away to Eels Island. But Eels Island, whose raggle-taggle inhabitants are dominated by the strange boy Dooby, is full of danger too.
The belief that she will one day find her parents ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Childrens London
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781858817637
SKU
V9781858817637
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Marcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick is a full time author. His first novel, Floodland, won the Branford Boase Award for the best debut children's novel of 2000. Since then his books have been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, the Costa Book Award, the Carnegie Medal and the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Find his website ... Read more
Reviews for Floodland
Entirely deserving of the Branford Boase Award, Floodland is a stunning debut novel that precluded more literary brilliance to follow.
Marty Mulrooney, ALTERNATIVE MAGAZINE ONLINE
Marty Mulrooney, ALTERNATIVE MAGAZINE ONLINE