Ashes, Ashes
by:
Jo Treggiari (author)
A thrilling tale of adventure, romance, and one girl's unyielding courage through the darkest of nightmares.Epidemics, floods, droughts--for sixteen-year-old Lucy, the end of the world came and went, taking 99% of the population with it. As the weather continues to rage out of control, and...
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A thrilling tale of adventure, romance, and one girl's unyielding courage through the darkest of nightmares.Epidemics, floods, droughts--for sixteen-year-old Lucy, the end of the world came and went, taking 99% of the population with it. As the weather continues to rage out of control, and Sweepers clean the streets of plague victims, Lucy survives alone in the wilds of Central Park. But when she's rescued from a pack of hunting dogs by a mysterious boy named Aidan, she reluctantly realizes she can't continue on her own. She joins his band of survivors, yet, a new danger awaits her: the Sweepers are looking for her. There's something special about Lucy, and they will stop at nothing to have her.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780545255639 (0545255635)
Publish date: June 1st 2011
Publisher: Scholastic
Pages no: 344
Edition language: English
Series: Ashes, Ashes (#1)
Es ist ein postapokalyptischer Roman, in dem die Welt von Klimakatastrophen und tödlichen Epidemien heimgesucht wurde. Nur wenige Menschen haben überlebt. Manche schlagen sich als Plünderer durch, andere schließen sich in Camps zu Gemeinschaften zusammen und die 16jährige Lucy versucht sich als Einz...
{March 26th 2014} UPDATEIt's funny. I actually was looking ALL over for this book when it first came out, and this was after I had saw it when looking for another one and it just stayed with me. I mean dat cover, and dat blurb! It totally felt like something I should read to keep me in the mindset o...
This review was originally posted on amazon on January 20, 2012: Dystopian is where it is at with Young Adult fiction these days, and this book attempts, without much success, to jump on that bandwagon.This book is deeply, deeply flawed. That's actually too nice. It is really bad. Let me count the...
One of the many dystopias that’s on the shelves, one that I decided to pick up because the plot itself looked and sounded interesting. For the most part it was. Albeit, the pace itself of the story was a bit slow. The setting itself isn’t so bad, Lucy herself is a survivor and knows how to live on h...
**I listened to the audio version. ** After the world is drowned due to climate change, whole coastlines are decimated, weather patterns change bringing two seasons, monsoon or drought, people are trying to get back on their feet when plague strikes, killing at least 95% of the surviving people. We ...