Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. She lands on tiny Eels Island, where she must survive in a nightmarish world run by wild children and their boy-leader, Dooby.

But Eels Island, whose raggle-taggle inhabitants are dominated by the strange boy Dooby, is full of dangers too.Set on the east coast of England after the sea has risen and flooded much of East Anglia, Floodland tells the story of ten year old Zoe who has lost her parents in a confusing rescue mission from her home island of Norwich. In fact, I think I like the story-telling more this way than if another hundred or so pages of explanation and backstories had been added: the reader has to make some leaps along the way. Alone and desperate among marauding gangs, she manages to dig a derelict boat out of the mud and escape to Eels Island.

He is also the most noted author in the history of the Printz Award, with one win and two honour books,for Revolver, The Ghosts of Heaven and Midwinter Blood. When I first saw Floodland on the shelf, I was intrigued by a storyline from the climate fiction genre. Sedgwick's writing is as usual top-notch, literate and engaging, with characters who come to life on the page.

My biggest complaint about FLOODLAND is that it is too short and as a result it suffered from not being able to give enough information to the reader to totally be at ease with what was going on. It reminded me of zombie apocalypse films where humanity either turns on each other or works together. The best thing about this book is that if I do not know a word I can select it and directly the meaning of the word appears.

His first book, Floodland, was published by Orion in 2000, and won the Branford-Boase award for best debut children's novel. Ten-year-old Zoe and her parents struggle to survive in Norwich, now an island, until the last supply ship is set to take them away. Despite its bleakness the story itself is very good and has a very believable plot it’s just that Zoe is all over the place as far as her character goes and on top of that it seems like the story starts and ends in the middle. The belief that she will one day find her parents spurs Zoe on to a dramatic escape in a story of courage and determination that leads to an unexpected and touching conclusion.

I honestly liked how the climate change way portrait although I probably would have acted differently than the characters. If it was to make people aware of the dangers of global warming it didn't touch on what had actually happened to bring about this world with any clarity.

The Raven Mysteries are full of humour and mad-cap action, which is quite different from your novels for older readers.Set in an all too believable near future when many parts of England are submerged in water and people drift into gangs, divided due to the scarcity of resources, especially food. Zoe now has to fend for herself in a settlement which is growing smaller each day, while the people become more savage and desperate.