Floodland

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Put this together with the feral survival of the children on the Island of Eels and you have Floodland.

The names of the lands and dwelling places are taken from Jerusalem and Blake’s visionary imagination). At first Dooby wanted to escape the island with Zoe, abandoning all his people, but Zoe refused after seeing Dooby's violence. But Eels Island, whose raggle-taggle inhabitants are dominated by the strange boy Dooby, is full of danger too. saw Marcus turn his attention to books for younger readers with the launch of a humorous new series: The Raven Mysteries, narrated by a grumpy raven, Edgar. In fact, I think I like the story-telling more this way than if another hundred or so pages of explanation and backstories had been added: the reader has to make some leaps along the way.No ship was coming to the island for food or taking people or anything, and the last ship that carried people was away with her parents. Marcus has been shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal five times, the Edgar Allan Poe Award (twice) and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (four times). My biggest complaint about FLOODLAND is that it is too short and as a result it suffered from not being able to give enough information to the reader to totally be at ease with what was going on. Floodland is a challenging novel for older readers who will be captivated by a vision of the future that is not so unbelievable.

It reminded me of zombie apocalypse films where humanity either turns on each other or works together.He has judged numerous books awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Costa Book Awards. She is fortunate to uncover a small rowboat submerged in the mud, and fixes it up so she can escape her town and find her parents. Alone and desperate among marauding gangs, she manages to dig a derelict boat out of the mud and escape to Eels Island.

I would highly recommend this book not only to use as a stimulus but as a read because it really gets you thinking. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives.We particularly liked linking William Blake's poem 'Little Girl Lost' to the book and creating our own tribal dances for the Eels, Cats and Horses. If it was to make people aware of the dangers of global warming it didn't touch on what had actually happened to bring about this world with any clarity. Half way to what’s left of the mainland she comes across another small isle that is dominated by huge Cathedral.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. A middle-grade short novel about a post-global-warming world in which much of what was England is now under water. Like Zoe, I would have liked to know more about what happened to all the people: 'Why aren't there more people here?The language in the book is simple to read but very descriptive, using lots of metaphors and personification. She fetches up on the remote and sinking Eels Island where there is a barbarous community, and to find out whether she ever gets off Eels Island and whether she ever finds her parents again you will have to read the book. For my opinion, the ending of the book was a little disappointing, because it ended like on the middle of the story.