Published in 2008. 248 pages.
This 2011 Beehive Award nominee is a very compelling read! I basically read it in less than 24 hours.
Eli's father has feared a nuclear holocaust for years. Now it has finally come, and Eli and his family now must live in the protective compound that his father had built.
I feel like I know the characters of this post-apocalyptic-dystopian novel, and I was sobbing toward the end of the book. I highly recommend it to middle school students - both boys and girls - and to adults who enjoy this genre. I'm eager to read Bodeen's 2010 young adult sci-fi novel The Gardener.
Level 2 of YA-D2!
From the peanut gallery: My 14-year-old book-loving daughter said, "Interesting and suspenseful. But it was kinda' disappointing because it wasn't what I expected it to be."
2010.79
I am kind of with your daughter on this one. I thought that this book was very thought provoking and a lot of things didn't add up. It is high on the weird scale for sure.
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