Flood Child, by Emily Diamand
Age: 9+
It is easy to see why Flood Child won the Chicken House competition in 2008. Readers will be swept away in the adventures of 13 year old Lilly, a girl living in London in the year 2216.
The setting of Flood Child is both imaginative and also hints at what actually might be… Great Britain has been engulfed by floods from global warming. Pirates, known as reavers, rule the waters. Read the rest of this entry