From the rear cover
Living with an eccentric little brother can be tough. Falling through the ice at a skating party and nearly drowning are grounds for embarrassment. But having a vision and narrating it to assembled onlookers? That solidifies your status as an outcast.
What Ruby Carson saw during that fateful hallucination was her entire hometown -- houses and people -- floating underwater. Then an orange-tipped surveyor stake appears in a field, another in the cemetery. Soon everyone discovers that a massive dam is being constructed and their homes will eventually be swallowed by rising water. Suspicions mount, tempers flare, long-simmering secrets are revealed. As the town prepares for its demise, 14-year-old Ruby watches it all from a front-row seat.
Set in the 1960s, The Town That Drowned deftly evokes the awkwardness of childhood, the thrill of first love, and the importance of having a place, any place, to call home.
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- Title The Town That Drowned
- Author Riel Nason
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton, NB, Canada
- Date 2011-09
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780864926401 / 0864926405
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 13 to 17 years
- Grade levels 8 - 12
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Brothers and sisters, Visions
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Quill & Quire, 09/01/2011, Page 26
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