The Other Side of the Island - Hardcover

Goodman, Allegra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1595141952 ISBN 13: 9781595141958

Publisher: Razorbill, 2008

Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman comes a post apocalyptic novel about love, loss, and the power of human choice.

Honor and her parents have been reassigned to live on Island 365 in the Tranquil Sea. Life is peaceful there—the color of the sky is regulated by Earth Mother, a corporation that controls New Weather, and it almost never rains. Everyone fits into their rightful and predictable place. . . .

Except Honor. She doesn’t fit in, but then she meets Helix, a boy with a big heart and a keen sense for the world around them. Slowly, Honor and Helix begin to uncover a terrible truth about life on the Island: Sooner or later, those who are unpredictable disappear . . . and they don’t ever come back.

The Other Side of the Island has been named a Best Book of 2008 by the LA Times, Washington Post, and Village Voice.

About this title

Book Description:

Honor lives in a dystopian world ruled by benevolent Earth Mother, where conformity is prized, the world is peaceful, and the Corporation has controlled the weather since the Flood. But Honor's parents dare to be different, having a second child and pressuring Honor to remember things everyone else is trying to forget. By the time Honor is 13, she cannot understand why her parents refuse to follow the rules, even as she becomes more grimly determined to be the perfect student. For a slightly younger age group than the current crop of dystopian and apocalyptic novels, the book is at its best when it's inside Honor's head, as she struggles to balance her parents' unorthodoxy with her craving to belong. Information about how this new world came to be is teasingly dispensed, and that, too, will keep readers engaged. Less successful is a daring, yet sometimes confusing, rescue at the story's conclusion. Still, as with many books in the genre, this offers readers plenty to consider, including how they might react in Honor's place.

From the Publisher:

The Other Side of the Island has been named a Best Book of 2008 by the LA Times, Washington Post, and Village Voice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Razorbill
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1595141952
• ISBN 13: 9781595141958
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272