The opening pages of Remembering Green hooked me. "I was born when the Earth was old. When I was born, there was a scent of rain on dust, the dust of Africa. And that is what my mother called me: Rain."
Beake's middle grade eco-fiction novel is set in the year 2200, when global warming has covered most of the Earth in seawater.
Poetic.
Must go and finish it!
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Posted on 5/29/2010