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9.2/10 Fantasy Book Review Publication date 2 Mar 2000 OCLC 41960153 Publisher Orion Publishing Group | 3.4/5 Goodreads Language English ISBN 1-85881-763-3 Originally published 2 March 2000 Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pages 128 pp (first edition, paperback) 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
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