Floodland (novel)
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Author | Marcus Sedgwick |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Children's Fantasy novel |
Publisher | Dolphin Paperback |
Publication date | 2 Mar 2000 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 128 pp (first edition, paperback) |
ISBN | 1-85881-763-3 |
OCLC | 41960153 |
Floodland is a children's fantasy novel by Marcus Sedgwick, published on 2 March 2000 by Orion Children's Books. 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 story is about a ten-year-old girl named Zoe who is left behind after her parents leave the island before 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 named Dooby. Will she ever find her parents?
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Categories:
- 2000 British novels
- British young adult novels
- Novels set in Norfolk
- Novels set in Cambridgeshire
- Norwich
- Ely Cathedral
- British novellas
- British post-apocalyptic novels
- Climate change novels
- 2000 debut novels
- 2000s fantasy novel stubs