Salvage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780062220141)

Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated deep space merchant ship Parastrata, faces betrayal, banishment, and death. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean, in this thrilling, surprising, and thought-provoking debut novel that will appeal to fans of Across the Universe, by Beth Revis, and The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. Internationally bestselling author Stephanie Perkins called it "brilliant, feminist science fiction."

Ava is the captain's daughter. This allows her limited freedom and a certain status in the Parastrata's rigid society--but it doesn't mean she can read or write or even withstand the forces of gravity. When Ava learns she is to be traded in marriage to another merchant ship, she hopes for the best. After all, she is the captain's daughter. But instead, betrayal, banishment, and a brush with love and death are her destiny, and Ava stows away on a mail sloop bound for Earth in order to escape both her past and her future. The gravity almost kills her. Gradually recuperating in a stranger's floating cabin on the Gyre, a huge mass of scrap and garbage in the Pacific Ocean, Ava begins to learn the true meaning of family and home and trust--and she begins to nourish her own strength and soul. This sweeping and harrowing novel explores themes of choice, agency, rebellion, and family, and after a tidal wave destroys the Gyre and all those who live there, ultimately sends its main character on a thrilling journey to Mumbai, the beating heart of Alexandra Duncan's post-climate change Earth. An Andre Norton Award nominee.

Author: Alexandra Duncan
ISBN-10: 0062220144
ISBN-13: 9780062220141
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2014
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 1.80d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 16
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 165436 / Salvage

Award: Cybils - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 02/01/2014 pg. 102
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2014
Booklist 03/15/2014 pg. 78
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2014 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Shelf Awareness 04/18/2014
Publishers Weekly 05/19/2014
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 06/01/2014 pg. 513
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2014 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw