Valentina
By: Kevin McDermott
Publisher: Little Island
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781908195203
Subjects: Coming of age; Young adult fiction; Climatic changes; Adventure and adventurers; Islands; Dystopias; Fiction
Description: In the future much of the world has been flooded after the Arctic ice cap melted, and with only the temperate zones still habitable, one small island is teeming with climate change refugees. Valentina is one of the lucky ones, living a privileged life in the heavily protected Citadel. She's the president's daughter, sheltered, spoilt and arrogant, but when she makes a secret trip outside the Citadel and into the Badlands, she is forced to face up to the realities of life on the island. First person recount. Suggested level: secondary.