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  <title><![CDATA[Exodus (Young Picador)]]></title>
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  <default_description>An internationally acclaimed bestseller, vividly and terrifyingly topical, is finally available to American audiences. 

Less than a hundred years from now, the world as we know it no longer exists.  Cities have disappeared beneath the sea, technology no longer functions, and human civilization has reverted to a much more primitive state.

On an isolated northern island, the people of Wing are trying to hold onto their way of life -- even as the sea continues to claim precious acres and threatens to claim their very lives.

Only fifteen-year-old Mara has the vision and the will to lead her people in search of a new beginning in this harsh, unfamiliar world.

This compelling and powerful story set in the near future will hit home with teens, especially those who are ever more aware of the increasingly controversial climate crisis we face in our world today.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2002</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Exodus (Young Picador)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Julie Bertagna]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It’s the year 2100 and Earth is underwater due to global warming.  Communication with all parts of the world has ceased to exist because…what other parts of the world are left?  Mara and her friends and family live on Wing, an island that has managed to survive the massive rising waters—until ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24355843">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In a world in which the ice caps are melting fast, any piece of dry land is very precious land. The last city that anyone knows about is New Mungo, and there are refugee boats surrounding it, and no one is allowed in (well, occasionally people are &quot;picked&quot; to go in but no one is sure if th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32941790">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23075318">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 27 16:04:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I did love Exodus. My teens are always begging for good science fiction and this post-apocalyptic tale of resourcefulness, bravery, and dogged determination will blow them away. The world building is first class from the storm scoured island of Wing to the floating refugee camp to the horrendous un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23075318">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59519514">
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    <name><![CDATA[Erin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 13 10:34:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 13 10:49:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had been looking forward to reading this book for a while but I'm not sure it lived up to my expectations exactly.  Exodus takes place in the year 2100, a future where global warming and environmental disasters have led to the melting of the polar ice caps and the drowing of the world.  Mara lives...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59519514">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58727685">
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    <name><![CDATA[Paige Y.]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 07 04:55:22 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 07 04:56:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is the year 2100 and the world as we know it has ended.  The polar ice caps have melted and the ocean has “drowned” almost all land.  Mara and her family live with a few other villagers on Wing – a small set of islands in what used to be Scotland (at least I assumed it was Scotland).  Each ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58727685">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55522628">
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  <read_at>Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat May 09 17:54:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat May 09 18:01:08 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mara Bell is fifteen years old and the exact image of her grandmother Mary.  She lives on Wing, an island in the northern part of an Earth nearly drowned by the melting of the polar ice caps.  The waters are continuing to rise, and Mara must trust the instincts she inherited from the strong women in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55522628">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65972650">
    <user id="1090898">
    <name><![CDATA[Tez]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 03 05:22:38 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 04 07:16:13 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sea levels are rising, which panics the residents of Wing, a small island in the North Atlantic. Fifteen-year-old Mara Bell has explored the Weave, and learned of a New World: cities rising from the sea and into the sky. And so Wing's residents leave en masse in boats...<br/><br/>In order to leave...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65972650">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="50429920">
    <user id="1584848">
    <name><![CDATA[Carrie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 25 13:16:31 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 30 07:21:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished this book last night and started the sequel, Zenith, about 2 hours later. Exodus takes place about 100 years in the future. But the future is uncertain unless you are lucky enough to live in one of the sky cities...or unlucky enough, depending on your outlook about what is valuable and im...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50429920">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="68995964">
    <user id="2530784">
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    <location><![CDATA[Conshohocken, PA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Aug 28 05:55:01 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book!  It is well-written and incredibly creative.  About three chapters into the book I wondered how the author was going to keep my interest...but she did!  Surprises lurked around every corner drawing me continually forward.  I couldn't put it down!<br/><br/>I think one of the stre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68995964">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65395874">
    <user id="674437">
    <name><![CDATA[Brandi]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[South Holland, IL]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 29 08:13:37 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 13 10:00:54 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mara’s world is covered by water.  Due to global warning issues in the early 2000s, Mara’s island is one of the few pieces of land left.  Now it’s 2100.  The last of the ice caps are melting and Mara’s island, Wing, is slowly sinking under the cold ocean.  While playing with a primitive elec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65395874">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43728484">
    <user id="1037651">
    <name><![CDATA[Ricki]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Vernon Rockville, CT]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 20 14:16:02 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 31 19:11:57 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not a science fiction reader, but I was hooked to this story. It took me about 70 pages to get really into the novel, but then I was hooked with the apocalyptic tale. It reminded me a bit of Dante's Inferno. I liked how it wasn't a fairy tale. Some characters, that I grew to love, died or disap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43728484">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22806433">
    <user id="935500">
    <name><![CDATA[Lynn]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well done distopian sf.  When the ice caps melt and the oceans rise, what happens to humanity?  There are some niggling problems with the world-building for me but I think teens will find this fascinating and scary.]]></body>
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    <review id="40749482">
    <user id="1347278">
    <name><![CDATA[Angela]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Dec 24 12:06:25 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An overall enjoyable book that had some holes and left a lot of questions unanswered - hopefully they'll be covered in the sequel.<br/><br/>I enjoyed the fast pace, though sometimes I felt that the plot was moving too quickly to allow any suspense to build. Mara's a good character, and I <em>loved</em> tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40749482">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65226577">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thebooksmugglers.com/2009/08/young-adult-appreciation-month-post-apocalypsedystopia-day.html">Full Review Link</a><br/><br/>Rod Serling’s Summary:<br/><br/><br/><br/>Picture a future, call it the year 2100. This girl you see here is Miss Mara Bell, and that rock she stands on is what she thinks is the last island in a sea-covered world. We’re about to discover that the sea won’t stop...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65226577">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55583578">
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    <name><![CDATA[Celeste]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Mannford, OK]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people who like LIfe As We Knew It]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There was a flood that devastated the world.  Few survived.  About 2100, the ocean started rising again, and the village Wing was forced to confront the problem.  Fifteen-year-old Mara envisioned a solution.  Using an &quot;ancient&quot; technology once known as the Weave, Mara discovered building p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55583578">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My 12 year old patron at the library, Joe, would not even read this book once he saw that it had a global warming theme. (I've been asking him to read the nominated RITBA titles since he's homeschooled and is a voracious reader!) Maybe I should have taken Joe's advice because this book took me weeks...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45300752">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The dangers of global warming come to the fore with this tale, which centers around Mara Bell. She is a 15-year-old girl growing up on Wing, a quickly-shrinking island set in the North Atlantic. There are clues that Wing used to be a much bigger piece of land, but the melting of the ice caps more an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37973552">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by JodiG. for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>What if everything you've heard about global warming is true -- and we haven't done enough to change the course of events? <br/><br/>Mara is a fifteen-year-old girl who lives on the island of Wing. The polar ice caps are melting, flooding most of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21561190">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In less than a hundred years, all the damage we've done to the Earth will catch up to us.  All the trees we've chopped down will contribute to the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, speeding the greenhouse effect and melting the polar ice caps.  The planet is drowning.<br/><br/>This is t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19311358">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a GREAT book. I liked how it seemed to be like most other books, except when what's-his-name followes her and turns around with her dagger and..............(spoiler). I really wasn't expecting that to happen. And then they didn't go on and on about it, because other books have already done ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71042290">more...</a>]]></body>
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