Nation
by Terry Pratchett
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After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.
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Fiction, Survival in fiction, Interpersonal relations in fiction, Interpersonal relations, Tsunamis, Tsunamis in fiction, Survival, Humor (Fiction), Juvenile Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Young adult fiction, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Humorous, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories, Survival skills, Children's Books -- Authors & Illustrators, A-Z -- ( P ) -- Pratchett, Terry, Children's fiction, Islands of the pacific, fiction, Interpersonal relations, fiction, Natural disasters, fiction, Survival, fiction, Shipwreck survival, Michael L. Printz honor books, nyt:chapter-books=2008-10-19, New York Times bestseller, English Fantasy fiction, Translations into Turkish, Literature and fiction, juvenileShowing 9 featured editions. View all 31 editions?
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Chicago Public Library Best of the Best, Publishers Weekly Best Book, Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, Horn Book Fanfare, Michael L. Printz Honor Book, ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults, Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book, ALA Top 10 Best Book for Young Adults, School Library Journal Best Book, ALA Notable Children’s Book, ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice, Bulletin Blue Ribbon (The Bulletin of the Center for Children).
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The sea has taken everything. Mau is the only one left after a giant wave sweeps his island village away. But when much is taken, something is returned, and somewhere in the jungle Daphne...a girl from the other side of the globe — is the sole survivor of a ship destroyed by the same wave. Together the two confront the aftermath of catastrophe. Drawn by the smoke of Mau and Daphne's sheltering fire, other refugees slowly arrive: children without parents, mothers without babies, husbands without wives — all of them hungry and all of them frightened. As Mau and Daphne struggle to keep the small band safe and fed, they defy ancestral spirits, challenge death himself, and uncover a long-hidden secret that literally turns the world upside down....Internationally revered storyteller Terry Pratchett presents a breathtaking adventure of survival and discovery, and of the courage required to forge new beliefs.
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