The belief that she will one day find her parents spurs Zoe on to a dramatic escape in a story of courage and determination that is handled with warmth and humanity. Alone and desperate among marauding gangs, she manages to dig a derelict boat out of the mud and gets away to Eels Island. This book was the winner of the Branford Boase Award 2001 and marked the start of author Marcus Sedgwick's multi-award-winning career. My biggest complaint about FLOODLAND is that it is too short and as a result it suffered from not being able to give enough information to the reader to totally be at ease with what was going on.

I love Marcus Sedgwick and his writing style and this being his debut novel was clearly a stepping stone for his future work to come. I think it would have been better if it showed how Zoe and Munchkin got along and about them having their baby brother. An easy and quick read that is set in the near future where global warming causes sea levels to rise, which then causes floods. The names of the lands and dwelling places are taken from Jerusalem and Blake’s visionary imagination). I found the end to be a bit of an anti-climax after all the drama building in the first ¾ of the book.

Despite its bleakness the story itself is very good and has a very believable plot it’s just that Zoe is all over the place as far as her character goes and on top of that it seems like the story starts and ends in the middle. Floodland is a children's fantasy novel by Marcus Sedgwick, published on 2 March 2000 by Orion Children's Books. This is stunning debut novel from Marcus Sedgwick and one in which the reader is instantly transported to the watery wastelands of the Fens via strong characterisation and an atmospheric tension that envelops the reader in a sea mist that chills to the bone.

We meet Zoe who has become separated from her parents in the last evacuation of Norwich, and left behind. On Norwich, we meet our main character, Zoe, who lost her parents as the last they got away on the last boat but Zoe got left behind.

I've given it three stars rather than two though because the author wasn't to blame for the publisher's failure, while the story displays clear potential. Alone and desperate among marauding gangs, she manages to dig a derelict boat out of the mud and get away to Eels Island. She escapes to Eels Island ( Ely Cathedral) where she discovers a sinister society run by a strange boy named Dooby. I thought, in the end, what a brilliant little story with so much to encourage or facilitate discussion and understanding!

Marcus also wrote with his brother Julian, and contributed to a short story collection with fellow YA authors. She is fortunate to uncover a small rowboat submerged in the mud, and fixes it up so she can escape her town and find her parents. The main idea of the book which is global warming, gives the children a perspective about how the future would be if humans keep on neglecting the environmental issues.She fetches up on the remote and sinking Eels Island where there is a barbarous community, and to find out whether she ever gets off Eels Island and whether she ever finds her parents again you will have to read the book. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. But Eels Island, whose raggle-taggle inhabitants are dominated by the strange boy Dooby, is full of dangers too. I understand Zoe is only 10 so should only have the understanding of a 10-year-old; and the book is aimed at older children rather than adults; but I still would have liked the book to be longer to give more of a background because even young kiddies like to know why! But Eels Island, whose raggle-taggle inhabitants are dominated by the strange boy Dooby, is full of danger too.

The language in the book is simple but very descriptive, with interesting discussion points too, making it a good choice of book to read/study as a class. So bleibt es eher auf dem Niveau von Büchern, die man 14-Jährige zwingt zu lesen, die somit an den Ernst der Welt denken sollen . He used to play for two bands namely playing the drums for Garrett and as the guitarist in an ABBA tribute group.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. He is the author of several books, including Witch Hill and The Book of Dead Days, both of which were nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award. The book has a captivating plot, with interesting characters that I am sure children will enjoy reading. Zoe now has to fend for herself in a settlement which is growing smaller each day, while the people become more savage and desperate.