American War /
El Akkad, Omar, 1982- , author.
American War / Omar El Akkad. - First large print edition. - New York : Random House Large Print, 2017. - 499 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike.
Carnegie Medal nominee, 2018
9781524779856
Drone aircraft--Fiction.
Environmental disasters--Fiction.
Futurism--Fiction.
Soldiers--Fiction.
Young women--United States--Fiction.
Fossil fuels--Political aspects--Fiction.
Atrocities--Fiction.
Biological warfare--Fiction.
Terrorism--Fiction.
Internally displaced persons--Fiction.
Civil war--United States--Fiction.
Louisiana--Fiction.
FICTION / Dystopian.
Authors, Canadian.
Canadian fiction.
Large type books.
F ELA
American War / Omar El Akkad. - First large print edition. - New York : Random House Large Print, 2017. - 499 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike.
Carnegie Medal nominee, 2018
9781524779856
Drone aircraft--Fiction.
Environmental disasters--Fiction.
Futurism--Fiction.
Soldiers--Fiction.
Young women--United States--Fiction.
Fossil fuels--Political aspects--Fiction.
Atrocities--Fiction.
Biological warfare--Fiction.
Terrorism--Fiction.
Internally displaced persons--Fiction.
Civil war--United States--Fiction.
Louisiana--Fiction.
FICTION / Dystopian.
Authors, Canadian.
Canadian fiction.
Large type books.
F ELA