Reavers' ransom
By: Emily Diamand
Publisher: Chicken House
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Frome, Somerset
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781906427061; 9781905294978
Subjects: Kidnapping; Pirates; Climatic changes; Juvenile fiction; Children's stories; Fiction
Description: In 22nd-century Great Britain, where climate change has caused vast flooding, the piratical Reavers kidnap the Prime Minister's daughter and 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.
Notes: The Times Children's Fiction Competition Winner 2008.