Snowflake, AZ Contributor(s): Sedgwick, Marcus (Author) |
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ISBN: 132400441X ISBN-13: 9781324004417 Publisher: Norton Young Readers OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Health & Daily Living - Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries - Young Adult Fiction | Literary - Young Adult Fiction | Science & Nature - Environment |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2019020978 |
Lexile Measure: 930 |
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.7" W x 8.3" (1.10 lbs) 320 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Ash boards a Greyhound bus heading to the place where Bly was last seen: Snowflake, Arizona. Six thousand feet up in the wide red desert, Ash meets Mona, her dog, her goat, and her neighbors, and finds stepbrother Bly, too. In their ramshackle homes, the walls lined with tinfoil, almost all the residents of Snowflake are sick. But this isn't any ordinary sickness: the chemicals and technologies of modern life are poisoning them. They call themselves canaries, living warning signs that humans have pushed the environment too far, except no one seems to be taking their warnings seriously. The healthy "normies" of Snowflake have written them off as a bunch of eccentrics, and when Ash too falls ill, the doctor's response is "It's all in your mind." Snowflake, AZ contemplates illness and health--both our own and our planet's. As Ash lives through a cycle of illness and recovery and loss, the world beyond is succumbing to its own affliction: a breakdown of civilization only distantly perceived by Ash and the isolated residents of Snowflake, from which there may or may not be a chance for recovery. This provocative novel by one of our most admired storytellers explores the resilience of love and community in the face of crisis. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sedgwick, Marcus: - Marcus Sedgwick was born and raised in East Kent in the south-east of England. He now lives in the French Alps. He is the winner of numerous prizes, most notably the 2014 Michael L. Printz Award for his novel Midwinterblood. Marcus has also received two Printz Honors, for Revolver in 2011 and The Ghosts of Heaven in 2016, giving him the most citations to date for America's most prestigious book prize for writing for young adults. Other notable award winning books include Floodland, Marcus's first novel, which won the Branford-Boase Award in 2001, My Swordhand is Singing, which won the Booktrust Teenage Prize for 2007, and Lunatics and Luck, part of The Raven Mysteries series, which won a Blue Peter Book Award in 2011. His books have been shortlisted for over forty other awards, including the Carnegie Medal (seven times), the Edgar Allan Poe Award (twice) and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (four times). He has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award three times, in 2016, 2017 and 2018. |