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Call Number: R Printz Honor 2009, Teen Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Reference 0-week checkout	R Printz Honor 2009	0-week checkout	Library Use Only
Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf

After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Fun, if not Discworld fun submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 11, 2012, 7:42pm Sir Terry Practchett, best know and loved for his Discworld novels, brings us a book set on Round World (Earth), although the author assures us that it is not quite our Earth. The story follows two teens--a young woman from England and a young man who lives on the South Pacific island where her ship crashes during a storm. The pair must learn to survive without the benefits of a larger community. This fun adventure takes us through several unexpected turns and throws off the racism and sexism of earlier survival novels such as "Robinson Crusoe" but still acknowledges that these problems exists in the 19th century, when the novel is set.

eh submitted by unknown on August 10, 2013, 9:58pm This is a survival book which I did not really like.

Not your grandparents survival novel. submitted by gulickb on April 23, 2015, 11:14am This book is beautifully written. I cannot praise it higher than that, for in my opinion beauty is the thing that all art should strive for. But seeing as that would make for a very short book review I will elaborate. One of the two main Character's Mau is the speaker for his entire tribe to the other main character Ermintrude who is a young academic and survivor of a shipwreck. The book is part survival tale, part anthropological tale, and part critique on the genre that the book belongs to.

Like all things written by Terry Pratchett it makes great use of language for both humor and effect. I would highly recommend this book to everyone teen and adult alike.