The CRYSTAL DROP - Hardcover

Monica Hughes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671791958 ISBN 13: 9780671791957

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1993

Synopsis

After their mother's death, Megan and her unpredictable little brother, Ian, are determined to leave their drought-stricken land and find the waterfall to which their uncle escaped years before.

About this title

About the Author:

MONICA HUGHES was the author of over thirty-five books. She received numerous literary awards, including, in 1982 and 1983, the Governor General’s Award (then known as the Canada Council Prize) for Children’s Literature. In 2002 Monica was made a member of the Order of Canada. She passed away in March 2003.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 5-10-- By the year 2011, global warming and an enlarged hole in the ozone have turned southern Alberta, once a fertile plain, into a burning desert. Adolescent Megan has grown up watching her neighbors leave and her family's water supply dwindle. Abandoned by her father, she harbors few illusions about human or natural generosity. After her mother dies in childbirth, she and her 10-year-old brother, Ian, leave their home and walk west, toward Lundbreck Falls in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. There, in the last years of the 20th century, her Uncle Greg helped found a community called Gaia. Drawn by her vision of tumbling water, Megan coaxes and bullies Ian across the ravaged landscape. Every human they meet is a competitor for the scarce resources, from the bitter descendants of the Blackfoot people to survivalists who guard their water with bullets. Readers share Megan's growing horror as she begins to comprehend the enormity of the ecological disaster that is her legacy, and admire her grit as she struggles on. While the trumpet of doom sounds a bit too shrill, and the story ends abruptly, the flaws of this compelling survival story are outweighed by colorful writing, believable characters, and a palpable landscape. --Margaret A. Chang, North Adams State College, MA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0671791958
• ISBN 13: 9780671791957
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212