The Flooded Earth (Flooded Earth Series #1)

The Flooded Earth (Flooded Earth Series #1)

by Mardi McConnochie
The Flooded Earth (Flooded Earth Series #1)

The Flooded Earth (Flooded Earth Series #1)

by Mardi McConnochie

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Overview

The 2019 Green Earth Award-Winning trilogy opener is now available in trade paperback! Forty years after the earth was devastated by massive flooding, four children on one small sailboat must flee corrupt authorities and overcome the dangers of the sea that drowned their world. 

 Twins Will and Annalie thought the hardest part about this year was going to be their separation when bookish Annalie began life at a prestigious Admiralty-run boarding school and avid sailor Will stayed behind in the flood-damaged slums. But that was before the Admiralty raided their father’s engineering workshop. Before they sent a questioner to threaten Annalie at school. Before their father disappeared, leaving a single coded clue to his destination. Desperate to find their father, the twins set out in the family’s small sailboat. But though they are both experienced sailors, they have no idea what dangers the sea has in store for them. 

 With The Flooded Earth, Mardi McConnochie opens her middle-grade cli-fi saga at top speed, drawing readers into a race against pirates, authorities, and the sea itself in a not-so-distant future full of new technology and old human failings.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781772781205
Publisher: Pajama Press Inc.
Publication date: 12/07/2021
Series: Flooded Earth Series , #1
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 447,258
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Age Range: 9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Mardi McConnochie’s novels for young readers include the Green Earth Book Award-winning The Flooded Earth, The Castle in the Sea, Dangerous Games, and Melissa, Queen of Evil, which won an Aurealis Award, Australia’s premiere award for speculative fiction. She is also the author of four adult novels: Coldwater, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize First Novel Award (Pacific region), The Snow Queen, Fivestar, and The Voyagers. Mardi’s TV scriptwriting credits include ‘Home and Away,’ ‘McLeod’s Daughters,’ ‘Always Greener,’ and ‘Pacific Drive.’ She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her partner, author James Bradley, and their two daughters.

Read an Excerpt

The last night Will and his father spent together was a very ordinary night—so ordinary you’d almost call it boring. Both of them were working—Spinner on a broken wind turbine, Will on the trucks of a skateboard—but the pace of the work was slow and relaxed. Songs from Spinner’s distant youth played on the old reconditioned soundbox.

“C’mon,” said Will, “we’ve listened to enough of your old-guy tracks. I want to put some good music on.”

“You wouldn’t know good music if it sat up and bit you,” Spinner said amiably.

And it was then, just as Will was deciding whether to argue his case or just lunge for the controls, that there was an urgent beating on their front door.

“Who is it?” Spinner called. It was wiser not to open your door at night.

“Truman,” came a voice. Truman was a pedicab rider who lived in the neighborhood.

Spinner unbolted the door and Truman fell into the room, gasping as if he’d just run the race of his life. “They’re coming,” he blurted.

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