Title: The last boy and girl in the world
Description: From the critically acclaimed author of The List comes a stunning new novel about a girl who must say goodbye to everything she knows after a storm wreaks havoc on her hometown. Aberdeen is drowning. Keeley Hewitt always has a joke to crack. Except there is nothing funny about her life right now. Her hometown of Aberdeen has always been known for flooding, but after one last terrible storm, the entire town has been told they must evacuate by the end of the summer for good. How will she say goodbye to everything and everyone she has ever known? Most of the Aberdeen residents happily take the generous payout and look forward to starting over someplace new. But Keeley s dad isn t swayed by the overtures of officials or the sheriff s threats. He refuses to evacuate their family, and Keeley goes from being the funny girl in school, to the last girl in Aberdeen. As the town empties out, two boys compete for her heart. One is a boy she s had a crush on forever, and the other is one she thinks she could fall in love with. But the water is rising higher and higher, and Keeley is faced with losing everything she s ever known, and the promise of things she s only ever wished for.
Subjects: Cities and towns, Fiction, Love, Friendship, Floods, Children's fiction, Floods, fiction, Cities and towns, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Love, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Romance fiction, Natural disasters, High school students, Inondations, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Villes, Amitié, Catastrophes naturelles, Élèves du secondaire, Romans, nouvelles, JUVENILE FICTION, Social Issues, New Experience, Family, General (see also headings under Social Issues), Nature & the Natural World, Weather, Family life, Nature, Fiction for children