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    Exodus (Paperback) By (author) Julie Bertagna

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    Short Description for ExodusAn internationally acclaimed bestseller is finally available to American audiences. "Exodus" is an epic story of survival set on a near-future Earth where global warming has become a reality. A miracle of a novel.--"The Guardian."
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  • Reading the future!4

    Maria Julie Bertagna has descriptively created vivid images in the reader's mind about a world that could be our future.

    The story is slowly brought together by events that the main character, Mara, experiences. I believe that readers may feel a connection to Mara as Bertagna has portrayed different emotions through the use of powerful words, and from this we can feel the pain and fear of the characters as if it was our own. However, throughout the book we read how Mara has to change to become a person the world believes her to be. Mara is a character who is confident and brave, but doesn't realize, as she believes herself to be selfish. This explains a lot about who a person thinks they are, and in Mara's case, we read that she doesn't believe in herself and that she's not the person everyone wants her to be.

    Bertagna has also related the beginning of her book to that of Lewis Carrolls' 'Alice in Wonderland'. The similarities are that the books contain a new world for the reader, with different people and languages that are conveyed from this world. Then the character Gorbals is first introduced to us by acting like the white rabbit as he is late and is in a rush. Bertagna could have done this to capture the strangeness of this other world that Mara has entered and to portray to the readers how life has changed.

    Altogether a lovely story about finding who you are through love, loss, friendship, fear and confidence. by Maria

  • Reviewed by JodiG. for TeensReadToo.com5

    TeensReadToo What if everything you've heard about global warming is true -- and we haven't done enough to change the course of events?

    Mara is a fifteen-year-old girl who lives on the island of Wing. The polar ice caps are melting, flooding most of the earth. What is left of Mara's primitive island is rapidly being claimed by the rising tide. Among the ruins of an abandoned cyberworld Mara meets another, someone who promises her that there is a safe haven in the New World.

    Mara convinces the people of her island that their only chance for survival is to sail north, where the sky cities can provide shelter against the rising storms and tides. However, they arrive to find that walls have been built around the city and that they are just a few of the refugees who are gathered around, hoping for entry. Life in the boat camp is a grim existence. Illness, hunger and death have penetrated the lives of Mara's group. Overwhelmed with guilt, Mara sets out to find a way to save her friends.

    With a little help, Mara makes her way inside the gates and sets about to infiltrate the New World city of New Mungo. How can one girl face such insurmountable odds and save her people against a formidable adversary? Can she really take on an entire city to save her friends? If only she could find her cyberworld acquaintance, maybe he could help Mara.

    EXODUS is a sobering reminder of the future we face if global warming is allowed to continue unchallenged. Julie Bertagna has presented a somber picture of what life may be like in the year 2099. She has balanced desperation with the enduring power of hope. When humans have hope, no challenge seems too difficult to face. The stark subject of the story is balanced with a fluid writing style that keeps you turning the pages and hoping for the best. EXODUS is already an international best seller and is being released to US readers in April 2008.

    This is one of those stories that will stay with you forever. by TeensReadToo

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