The Town That Drowned /
Nason, Riel, 1969- , author.
The Town That Drowned / Riel Nason. - Fredericton, N. B. : Goose Lane, 2011. - 273 pages ; 22 cm
"Edited by Bethany Gibson"--T.p. verso.
"Living with an eccentric little brother can be tough. Faliing through the ice at a skating party and nearly drowning are grounds for embarrassment. But having a vision and narrating it to assembled onlookers? That solidifies your status as an outcast.
What Ruby Carson saw during that fateful hallucination was her entire hometown - houses and people - floating underwater.
Then an orange-tipped surveyor stake appears in a field, another in the cemetery. Soon everyone discovers that a massive dam is being constructed and their homes will eventually be swallowed by rising water. Suspicions mount, tempers flare, long-simmering secrets are revealed. As the town prepares for its demise, 14-year-old Ruby watches it all from a front-row seat." [cover]
grades 7-8.
Red Maple Award official selection, 2013
9780864926401
20119029014
Extrasensory perception--Fiction.
Dams--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
City and town life--Fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Authors, Canadian.
FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II.
F NAS
The Town That Drowned / Riel Nason. - Fredericton, N. B. : Goose Lane, 2011. - 273 pages ; 22 cm
"Edited by Bethany Gibson"--T.p. verso.
"Living with an eccentric little brother can be tough. Faliing through the ice at a skating party and nearly drowning are grounds for embarrassment. But having a vision and narrating it to assembled onlookers? That solidifies your status as an outcast.
What Ruby Carson saw during that fateful hallucination was her entire hometown - houses and people - floating underwater.
Then an orange-tipped surveyor stake appears in a field, another in the cemetery. Soon everyone discovers that a massive dam is being constructed and their homes will eventually be swallowed by rising water. Suspicions mount, tempers flare, long-simmering secrets are revealed. As the town prepares for its demise, 14-year-old Ruby watches it all from a front-row seat." [cover]
grades 7-8.
Red Maple Award official selection, 2013
9780864926401
20119029014
Extrasensory perception--Fiction.
Dams--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
City and town life--Fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Authors, Canadian.
FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II.
F NAS