Raiders' ransom
By: Emily Diamand ; [interior illustrations by Carol Lawson]
Contributors: Lawson, Carol. ill
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Chicken House
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780545142977
Subjects: Environmental degradation; Kidnapping; Pirates; Adventure and adventurers; Computers; Fiction; Science fiction; Cats
Description: In 22nd-century Great Britain, where climate change has caused vast flooding, the piratical Reavers kidnap the Prime Minister's daughter and thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun, an English fisher-girl, takes her seacat on a daring rescue attempt, with a mysterious talking jewel from a past computer age tucked in her belt as ransom.