Nation

By Terry Pratchett

Subjects: Tsunamis, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories, Survival skills, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young adult fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Translations into Turkish, Shipwreck survival, New York Times bestseller, Islands of the pacific, fiction, English Fantasy fiction, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Humorous, Natural disasters, fiction, Fantasy, nyt:chapter-books=2008-10-19, Interpersonal relations, Survival, Literature and fiction, juvenile, Fiction, Children's fiction, Humor (Fiction), Survival in fiction, Interpersonal relations in fiction, Survival, fiction, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy, Michael L. Printz honor books, Children's Books -- Authors & Illustrators, A-Z -- ( P ) -- Pratchett, Terry, Interpersonal relations, fiction, Tsunamis in fiction

Description: The sea has taken everything. Mau is the only one left after a giant wave sweeps his island village away. But when much is taken, something is returned, and somewhere in the jungle Daphne...a girl from the other side of the globe — is the sole survivor of a ship destroyed by the same wave. Together the two confront the aftermath of catastrophe. Drawn by the smoke of Mau and Daphne's sheltering fire, other refugees slowly arrive: children without parents, mothers without babies, husbands without wives — all of them hungry and all of them frightened. As Mau and Daphne struggle to keep the small band safe and fed, they defy ancestral spirits, challenge death himself, and uncover a long-hidden secret that literally turns the world upside down....Internationally revered storyteller Terry Pratchett presents a breathtaking adventure of survival and discovery, and of the courage required to forge new beliefs.