Floodland / Marcus Sedgwick ; wood engravings by the author.
By: Sedgwick, Marcus [author].
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TextPublisher: London : Dolphin, 2000Description: 122p. ; 20cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1858817633 (pbk.) :; 9781858817637.Subject(s): Floods -- Juvenile fiction | Abandoned children -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Dystopias. | Children's stories.DDC classification: FIC SED Summary: 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 spurs Zoe on to a dramatic escape in a story of courage and determination that is handled with warmth and humanity.
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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 spurs Zoe on to a dramatic escape in a story of courage and determination that is handled with warmth and humanity.
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