Floodland

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An easy and quick read that is set in the near future where global warming causes sea levels to rise, which then causes floods.

It’s a book packed with so, so much to learn including the environment and the aspects of human morality and mortality.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I would highly recommend this book not only to use as a stimulus but as a read because it really gets you thinking. Sedgwick had obviously been influenced by William Blake’s ideas of how we have the power within ourselves and our imaginations to build a society that is for the good of all, or one that is destructive and selfish.

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 dangers too. And it gave me fresh impetus to go back to the next YA novel, Revolver, with renewed determination to be gloomy!

I'd had it for ages but didn't know where I was going to use it until the character of Edgar came along: "I suspect I may have fleas again".Also, I think this book was mainly focusing on how the water is getting higher and lands getting smaller. After seeing Floodland used in a Year 5 class on my last placement I was pleasantly surprised at its many uses within the classroom and its cross curricular links.