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Publication date
  
2 Mar 2000

OCLC
  
41960153

Author
  
Marcus Sedgwick

Publisher
  
Orion Publishing Group

3.4/5
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Language
  
English

ISBN
  
1-85881-763-3

Originally published
  
2 March 2000

Illustrator
  
Marcus Sedgwick

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Pages
  
128 pp (first edition, paperback)

Genres
  
Fiction, Fantasy, Young adult fiction, Children's literature, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
Marcus Sedgwick books, Young adult fiction books

Floodland is a children's fantasy novel by Marcus Sedgwick, published on March 2, 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?

References

Floodland (novel) Wikipedia