false 3032314 3 From <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Allegra Goodman comes a post apocalyptic novel about love, loss, and the power of human choice. <p> Honor and her parents have been reassigned to live on Island 365 in the Tranquil Sea. Life is peaceful there—the color of the sky is regulated by Earth Mother, a corporation that controls New Weather, and it almost never rains. Everyone fits into their rightful and predictable place. . . .<p> Except Honor. She doesn’t fit in, but then she meets Helix, a boy with a big heart and a keen sense for the world around them. Slowly, Honor and Helix begin to uncover a terrible truth about life on the Island: Sooner or later, those who are unpredictable disappear . . . and they don’t ever come back. 3062909 4 9 2008 The Other Side of the Island total:242|5:46|4:84|3:81|2:28|1:3| 242 868 476 100 5 1 false false Sat Jan 24 11:12:37 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 11:25:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false true Tue Apr 07 06:12:02 -0700 2009 Sun Dec 21 15:07:33 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 07 06:12:02 -0700 2009
This fell flat for me. I almost felt like I didn't know what story the author w...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 10:17:52 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 20:37:57 -0700 2008
First paragraph chapter one: All this happened many years ago, before the streets were air-conditioned. Children played outside then, and in many places the sky was naturally blue. A girl moved to a town house in the Colonies on Island...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 14:21:44 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 15:26:45 -0800 2008 The Other Side of the Island. It's certainly not a bad book, not even a bad contribution to environmental-disaster-dystopian fiction for young adults, but "...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Dec 19 09:40:15 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 09:43:33 -0800 2008
It's the eighteenth year of Enclosure and everything on the islands in the Tranquil Sea have become regulated. Earth Mother and her Corporation, who have a vision for a world with only happiness, control everything from jobs to the weather to childre...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 13:35:27 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 13:56:10 -0700 2009
One thing that distinguishes The Other Side of the Island from ot...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Apr 23 06:07:08 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 06:23:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 20:54:03 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 20:54:03 -0700 2009
At the beginning of the book, I didn't know what to think abo...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 26 21:00:11 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 18:49:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 16:42:15 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 18:39:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 10:44:39 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 14:01:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 14:16:14 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 14:21:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 11:33:51 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 14:13:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 13:33:39 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 13:33:53 -0800 2009 A new age is upon the earth. After the Flood, the planet was reborn as a series of Islands, looked after by the glorious Earth Mother. She has created a calm and safe world, where anything inaccurate or unpredictable is a thing of the past.

For Honor, though, her life isn't as simpl...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 15:43:15 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 15:50:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 12:42:21 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 11:27:09 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 18:41:29 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 12:14:31 -0800 2008 It’s the eighteenth year of Enclosure and everything on the islands in the Tranquil Sea have become regulated. Earth Mother and her Corporation, who have a vision for a world with only happiness, control everything from jobs to the weather to children’s names and expect everyone to conform...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 16:15:53 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 16:23:42 -0700 2009
In the future, the world is mostly covered by water. It is taught that the Earth Mother controls the weather and in doing so protects the people. People are told that She and her 'government', the Corporation, have begun Enclosing...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 15:53:54 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 11:51:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 15:37:45 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 15:54:32 -0800 2009 more...]]>