- Fiction, Floods, Global warming, Science fiction
After global warming causes the sea to rise until cities in England become islands, ten-year-old Zoe goes on a harrowing solitary boat journey to search for her parents.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Marcus Sedgwick
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 148
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385328012
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