Floodland (novel)

Floodland (novel)

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name = Floodland
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author = Marcus Sedgwick
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Children's Fantasy novel
publisher = Orion Children's Books
release_date = 2 Mar 2000
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 128 pp (first edition, paperback)
isbn = ISBN 1858817633
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"Floodland" is a children's fantasy novel by Marcus Sedgwick, published on March 2, 2000 by Orion Children's Books and aimed at teens and young adults. Floodland won the Branford Boase Award in 2001 for an outstanding first published novel.

Plot introduction

Floodland is set in the near future where most of the United Kingdom is covered by water. The storyline concerns a girl named Zoe who is left behind after her family flees the floods. She is left alone in the ruins of Norwich but escapes to Eels Island (Ely Cathedral) where she discovers a sinister society run by a strange boy.

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Zoe is left by a boat that her parents left on when she goes on search for them she faces big chalenges. Zoe's mom was awfully sick so then she gets hit by something on the head, she faints and couldn't tell her parents what happened because they had already left.
* [http://www.marcussedgwick.com/ Marcus Sedgwick's homepage]
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/marcus-sedgwick/floodland.htm Fantasticfiction entry for Floodland]


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