What on Earth?

by Susan Cope

Overview

While visiting their Secret Place-a treehouse and its owl-a shuddering jolt changes everything for Merry and Max, hurtling them into a journey into the future-a breathtaking adventure, a battle between short-sighted greed and long-term survival in which their fate and the fate of the earth are at stake.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781956368246
Publisher:	Wayfarer Books
Publication date:	09/27/2022
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.51(d)
Age Range:	10 - 12 Years

About the Author

Susan Cope was born in the foothills of the Berkshires in Massachusetts and has lived most of her life close to the Pacific Ocean in Southern California. Work in television news exposed her to clear-cut forests, open mines, wildfires, and blacktop so hot it melted the soles of her shoes. She is one of few who survived an impressive, secondary eruption of Mount St. Helen from a helicopter tossed around inside the crater. The fragility of her own life led to an awareness of the precariousness of all life in a world of global climate change. Motherhood and new adventures as a teacher accentuated how much we have to lose, but offered optimism too. A grandmother now, she hopes we can still wake from this nightmare, still save our threatened home, this earth.

Editorial Reviews

"In What on Earth? the main character undertakes a visionary series of adventures from which she returns with clarity and courage to face the environmental crisis unfolding in her actual life; adults are both adversaries responsible for the problem and allies working on solutions. At today's crossroad in humanity's story, when children have everything to lose and are increasingly energized to demand action, this book's embrace of the ecological picture beyond economic profits earned it a Prism Prize for Climate Literature."

-Gail Collins-Ranadive, author of Dinosaur Dreaming

"From latch key children to castaway kids...Merry and Max find themselves in a world where broken people called 'Defectives' lawlessly roam the streets, permits are required for all children, and sanity comes in the form of a perky robot in an apron. Homesick, our heroes escape, only to return to the worst-case scenario of their own neighborhood. What happens when Home Sweet Home is no place like home?

What on Earth challenges young readers to see the crisis before us all. A gripping mix of science fiction, mystery and adventure, What on Earth doubles as a call-to-action rousing readers to take responsibility for the planet before it's too late. And inside every Cracker Jack box of hope is the prize of adventure.

-Linda Davis, author; Editor of Dangerous Angels

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