After the Earth Shaker, a massive quake that left her home city of Los Angeles destroyed in all but name, Pen sets out into a wasted, post-apocalyptic Earth, guided by only a batted copy of Homer's "Odyssey." Genetically mutated and cloned giants, a madman, and the wasted world itself stand in the way of survival, but with friends she makes along the way, Pen determines to outlast the apocalypse.
year: 2013
call number/section: 1000
subjects: survival skills, fiction, family life, love stories, voyages and travels, earthquakes, los angeles (calif.), fiction, family, survival, families, love, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, castaways, romance fiction, science fiction
Editions
Block, Francesca Lia
Henry Holt and Co. (2013)
After a devastating earthquake destroys the West Coast, causing seventeen-year-old Penelope to lose her home, her parents, and her ten-year-old brother, she navigates a dark world, holding hope and love in her hands and refusing to be defeated.
Schools: 23
Block, Francesca Lia
After the Earth Shaker, a massive quake that left her home city of Los Angeles destroyed in all but name, Pen sets out into a wasted, post-apocalyptic Earth, guided by only a batted copy of Homer's "Odyssey." Genetically mutated and cloned giants, a madman, and the wasted world itself stand in the way of survival, but with friends she makes along the way, Pen determines to outlast the apocalypse.
Schools: 3
Block, Francesca Lia
After a devastating earthquake destroys the West Coast, causing seventeen-year-old Penelope to lose her home, her parents, and her ten-year-old brother, she navigates a dark world, holding hope and love in her hands and refusing to be defeated.
Schools: 1