Floodland

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It’s a book packed with so, so much to learn including the environment and the aspects of human morality and mortality. His first book, Floodland, was published by Orion in 2000, and won the Branford-Boase award for best debut children's novel.

Supplies were running out and six months previously when the boat came to drop off supplies for the last time Zoe’s parents make it out but she is left behind. Sedgwick's writing is as usual top-notch, literate and engaging, with characters who come to life on the page. Half way to what’s left of the mainland she comes across another small isle that is dominated by huge Cathedral.We read this because of our Climate Change topic and it has inspired us as a class to try to halt climate change! And it gave me fresh impetus to go back to the next YA novel, Revolver, with renewed determination to be gloomy!

However Zoe is a gutsy little girl and survives long enough to find her boat, make an ally and to escape in the middle of a battle and continue off to find her parents. I definitely would not have picked this book up if it weren't for school, because the writing and story just aren't my favorite, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. On Norwich, we meet our main character, Zoe, who lost her parents as the last they got away on the last boat but Zoe got left behind. This is an interesting story set in the near future, where global warming has caused the Earth’s sea levels to rise, flooding much of Britain and the rest of the world. So bleibt es eher auf dem Niveau von Büchern, die man 14-Jährige zwingt zu lesen, die somit an den Ernst der Welt denken sollen .I read this over a weekend so I could use it as a stimulus for the English work the children in the year 6 class I was working with were going to do. I am using this book as the basis for a unit of work on placement and very excited to see how the children's work turns out. Yes, I always loved myths and legends - I used to read and re-read two books from the library - one a big illustrated edition of Greek Myths and the other Old Peter's Russian Tales.