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Exodus (Exodus / Raging Earth #1)
Mara's island home is drowning as the ice caps melt and Earth loses its land to the ocean. But one night, in the ruined virtual world of the Weave, Mara meets the mysterious Fox a fiery-eyed boy who tells her of sky cities that rise from the sea.
Mara sets sail on a daring journey to find a new life for herself and her friends - instead she discovers a love that threatens t...more
Mara sets sail on a daring journey to find a new life for herself and her friends - instead she discovers a love that threatens t...more
Paperback, 337 pages
Published
June 6th 2003
by Pan MacMillan
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Jun 25, 2008
Sarah
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4 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
grades 6 and up
Recommended to Sarah by:
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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 now. The people on Wing assume that there are other people somewhere in the world living on islands like they are…but they have no idea where. Little do they know that Mara uses her antique cyberwizz (similar...more
Nov 05, 2012
Jennifer Wardrip
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Reviewed by JodiG. for TeensReadToo.com
What if everything you've heard about global warming is true -- and we haven't done enough to change the course of events?
Mara is a fifteen-year-old girl who lives on the island of Wing. The polar ice caps are melting, flooding most of the earth. What is left of Mara's primitive island is rapidly being claimed by the rising tide. Among the ruins of an abandoned cyberworld Mara meets another, someone who promises her that there is a safe haven in the New Wo...more
What if everything you've heard about global warming is true -- and we haven't done enough to change the course of events?
Mara is a fifteen-year-old girl who lives on the island of Wing. The polar ice caps are melting, flooding most of the earth. What is left of Mara's primitive island is rapidly being claimed by the rising tide. Among the ruins of an abandoned cyberworld Mara meets another, someone who promises her that there is a safe haven in the New Wo...more
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 "picked" to go in but no one is sure if this is a good thing or bad.
Mara leaves her drowning island and arrives here to discover she's part of a prophecy.
It does feel like, and is promised to be part of a trilogy, but the original was published in the...more
Mara leaves her drowning island and arrives here to discover she's part of a prophecy.
It does feel like, and is promised to be part of a trilogy, but the original was published in the...more
In the year 2099, the polar icecaps have melted and most of the world is underwater. 15-year-old Mara and her small village cling to a life of subsistence farming on Wing, an island in the North Atlantic that gets smaller every year. Finally, caught in a terrifying storm that seems to be eating up their island altogether, they set off into the ocean on small boats, with no guarantee that they will ever find anywhere to land.
The characters in this book are strong, realistic and likeable, but Bert...more
The characters in this book are strong, realistic and likeable, but Bert...more
3.5 stars
The themes in this book are very good, both the subtle and the upfront, particularly when they all come to a head in the end--themes about survival, ideals, the brutality of reality, and patriarchal societies. The worldbuilding is also interesting, detailed and thought-out enough to be plausible and acceptable, although some of the tech stuff that arose near the end went over my head--which maybe it was supposed to. Either way, it was well-written enough that it didn't bother me.
The tec...more
The themes in this book are very good, both the subtle and the upfront, particularly when they all come to a head in the end--themes about survival, ideals, the brutality of reality, and patriarchal societies. The worldbuilding is also interesting, detailed and thought-out enough to be plausible and acceptable, although some of the tech stuff that arose near the end went over my head--which maybe it was supposed to. Either way, it was well-written enough that it didn't bother me.
The tec...more
I liked the beginning. It was good. I liked how Mara was describing that computers were ancient and how different the world could become in less then 100 years. How different the world could become. I really did like it. I was excited to read the rest.
To be honest though, I didn't like most of the book. I'll just sum up some of the things that I wasn't a big fan of. The names were pretty weird and made the book VERY confusing to read. For all of you that have read The Hunger Games, I know what y...more
To be honest though, I didn't like most of the book. I'll just sum up some of the things that I wasn't a big fan of. The names were pretty weird and made the book VERY confusing to read. For all of you that have read The Hunger Games, I know what y...more
Exodus is set in the year 2099, when the Earth has all but drowned and only a few islands remain habitable. Mara is confined to her fast-disappearing island home of Wing, which is ravaged by fierce storms and an ever-dwindling supply of food, and where every night she escapes into a virtual world known as the Weave. One night, she discovers ‘proof’ of the mythical Sky Cities – entire cities that rose into the sky and kept their inhabitants safe from the flooded world below – and sets about convi...more
I have found this book because of my previous book, Life As We Knew It by Pffefer under the category of dystopias. These are the books that gets me going and and excited throughout the book. For this book, I've finished it after three days in my hands.
Mara Bell, who lives in 2100 and the island of Wing, has her hometown gradually sinking by the ocean every year. She convinces everyone to move to a new island after her recent discovery of the "cyber wolf" in her cyberwiz. She tells everyone that...more
Mara Bell, who lives in 2100 and the island of Wing, has her hometown gradually sinking by the ocean every year. She convinces everyone to move to a new island after her recent discovery of the "cyber wolf" in her cyberwiz. She tells everyone that...more
Interest level: 6th +
Reading level: medium
Genre: Science fiction, dystopia, dystopian society, environmental catastrophe, environment, sea levels Series: Exodus
Read-alikes: City of Ember, Big Empty, Last Book in the Universe, Z for Zachariah
Imagine a world that is almost completely devoid of land due to an environmental catastrophe resulting from climatic change. The polar caps have almost completely melted on earth thanks to the foolishness of humans, and most continents on planet earth have,...more
Reading level: medium
Genre: Science fiction, dystopia, dystopian society, environmental catastrophe, environment, sea levels Series: Exodus
Read-alikes: City of Ember, Big Empty, Last Book in the Universe, Z for Zachariah
Imagine a world that is almost completely devoid of land due to an environmental catastrophe resulting from climatic change. The polar caps have almost completely melted on earth thanks to the foolishness of humans, and most continents on planet earth have,...more
Imagine our world if the ice caps really do thaw - what would it be like? What would we do to survive when we see the ocean creep up to the places we love? In Exodus, the cities and land that we know are now deep underwater and in the commencing chaos, Mara's ancestors settled on the tip of the island of Wing. As yearly storms rage and the water rises, her community realizes that soon there will be nothing left - and Mara has a crazy idea that might save them all.
What a plot! This post-apocalypt...more
What a plot! This post-apocalypt...more
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 on a small island that used to be a hilltop village in Scotland (at least somewhere in the British Isles). Through old technology called the Weave (which is a souped up version of the Web I think), Mar...more
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 year there are months of horrific storms and the islands get smaller. Before long the island will be completely consumed by the ocean.
Fifteen year-old Mara wants to save everyone, and she manages to persuade...more
Fifteen year-old Mara wants to save everyone, and she manages to persuade...more
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 her family. She convinces her neighbors to flee the island for refuge in one of the sky cities, the tall feats of technology so high as to be safe from the storms and rising waters. When they reach the...more
I liked the premise of the novel. But I was bored reading it, and I didn't like it as much as I thought I would.
I couldn't connect to any of the characters, and I felt like a lot of them were just there. Not only that, but we didn't get much info about the world that Mara lived in. I thought that was a little weird because Mara leaves her island, goes elsewhere, and doesn't really know anything about what's going on.
And considering she goes on a journey to a completely different place, you'd thi...more
I couldn't connect to any of the characters, and I felt like a lot of them were just there. Not only that, but we didn't get much info about the world that Mara lived in. I thought that was a little weird because Mara leaves her island, goes elsewhere, and doesn't really know anything about what's going on.
And considering she goes on a journey to a completely different place, you'd thi...more
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I sat down with Julie Bertagna's 'Exodus' (The first of three - her trilogy) and within minutes was stumbling and cursing as my mind tried to auto correct the language she had chosen to use.
Example : Last summer the heat had burned the island almost barren. Mara remembers(?!!) air so hot it shimmered like glass………………."We need to move again," Tain is saying(?!!!).
Third Person and mjost often first person narration is used with past tense. Movie screen plays on the otherhand are almost exclusively...more
Example : Last summer the heat had burned the island almost barren. Mara remembers(?!!) air so hot it shimmered like glass………………."We need to move again," Tain is saying(?!!!).
Third Person and mjost often first person narration is used with past tense. Movie screen plays on the otherhand are almost exclusively...more
This is a post-apocalyptic dystopian YA novel with a feisty heroine (my favorite kind!). It's set in 2099, when rising ocean waters (due to global warming) have washed away much of the world. Mara, our heroine, lives in a struggling community on a small island that gets smaller with each passing year. Eventually her people have to abandon the island, and they set out in their fleet of ramshackle fishing boats to seek shelter in the rumored "sky cities" to the south.
Things turn pretty grim from...more
Things turn pretty grim from...more
Mar 30, 2009
Carrie Goodall
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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 important in life. Sky cities have been built above drowned cities to withstand the raging storms and rising seas.
Mara grew up on Wing, an island somewhere in the Atlantic. All of the Earth's continents...more
Mara grew up on Wing, an island somewhere in the Atlantic. All of the Earth's continents...more
This teen novel was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award back in 2002 when it was first published in the U.K. and now is finally making a stir here in North America.
Mara lives on Wing, an island in the North Atlantic at the end of the 21st century. But as has been happening for many years, her island is disappearing. Her people have moved to higher and higher ground as the world warms and the waters rise, but they are running out of places to go. Mara uses the old tech...more
Mara lives on Wing, an island in the North Atlantic at the end of the 21st century. But as has been happening for many years, her island is disappearing. Her people have moved to higher and higher ground as the world warms and the waters rise, but they are running out of places to go. Mara uses the old tech...more
I am rounding this up to 4 stars. I would probably put it around 3.7 or 3.8 if I had the option.
I definitely enjoyed this book and would recommend it. It is a very good, involving story that gets better as it goes along. The writing is good, but I agree with other reviewers that the style is best for, say, grade 6 and up. At the lower end of that range, I would be concerned about some very scary scenes and bad things that happen, especially in the first half of the book. It is fine for adult rea...more
I definitely enjoyed this book and would recommend it. It is a very good, involving story that gets better as it goes along. The writing is good, but I agree with other reviewers that the style is best for, say, grade 6 and up. At the lower end of that range, I would be concerned about some very scary scenes and bad things that happen, especially in the first half of the book. It is fine for adult rea...more
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Dystopin novel about life after global warming has melted much of the polar ice caps, and most of the world is under water. Mara is a young girl who convinces her village (who live on a diminishing island near what is now Scotland) to leave and travel to New Mungo, a city that has been built to stand above the oceans. When she gets there, she discovers that the city fathers don't permit the refugees to enter, a measure to preserve the city itself. Mara gets through the city walls to an area unde...more
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Julie Bertagna has descriptively created vivid images in the reader’s mind about a world that could be our future.
The story is slowly brought together by events that the main character, Mara, experiences. I believe that readers may feel a connection to Mara as Bertagna has portrayed different emotions through the use of powerful words, and from this we can feel the pain and fear of the characters as if it was our own. However, throughout the book we read how Mara has to change to become a perso...more
The story is slowly brought together by events that the main character, Mara, experiences. I believe that readers may feel a connection to Mara as Bertagna has portrayed different emotions through the use of powerful words, and from this we can feel the pain and fear of the characters as if it was our own. However, throughout the book we read how Mara has to change to become a perso...more
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!
I think one of the strenths of the boo is the heroine, Mara Bell. She is brilliant, determined, compassionate, strong, loyal and reckless. She isn't afraid to go her own way and make her own path in life even when she doesn't completely be...more
I think one of the strenths of the boo is the heroine, Mara Bell. She is brilliant, determined, compassionate, strong, loyal and reckless. She isn't afraid to go her own way and make her own path in life even when she doesn't completely be...more
Jul 31, 2011
Miz Lizzie
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4 of 5 stars
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In the not-too-distant future fifteen-year-old Mara lives on the rain-soaked and drowning island of Wing (presumably off the coast of Scotland). While exploring the virtual world on an ancient solar-powered gadget, Mara learns of the possibility of cities built above the ocean where her people might find refuge. A dangerous sea journey finds a flotsam of refugee boats all craving but denied entrance to the sky city. Mara somehow believes herself solely responsible for her people's fate and, in d...more
I wanted to like this book a lot more than I did, though that's probably a feature of me rather than the book: I often find that science fiction books tend to raise some fascinating issues only to neglect them in favor of rather straightforward storytelling. This is no different. Set in a future in which humans face the loss of land as a result of global warming, a band of refugees sets out to find hypothesized floating sky cities. This immediately raised interesting questions ("what if there is...more
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 electronic device called a cyberwizz, Mara discovers an old advertisement for sky cities. Perhaps this is the chance her poor island has to survive. One day Mara runs into a fox while surfing the Weave through the cy...more
Plus 4,5 que 4
Ecrit en 2003, ce roman est assez visionnaire, l’auteur est très attachée a tout ce qui touche à l’environnement et l’on sent qu’elle s’est informée.
Elle a une imagination extraordinaire que se soit dans la création des noms des personnages ou même dans l’univers dans lesquels elle les fait évoluée.
Marabell est l’héroïne de l’histoire et si ce roman a été écrit bien avant hunger-games Marabell et Katniss je dirais même combat. Mara est rebelle, intelligente et ne se borne pas a vo...more
Ecrit en 2003, ce roman est assez visionnaire, l’auteur est très attachée a tout ce qui touche à l’environnement et l’on sent qu’elle s’est informée.
Elle a une imagination extraordinaire que se soit dans la création des noms des personnages ou même dans l’univers dans lesquels elle les fait évoluée.
Marabell est l’héroïne de l’histoire et si ce roman a été écrit bien avant hunger-games Marabell et Katniss je dirais même combat. Mara est rebelle, intelligente et ne se borne pas a vo...more
I ran into the library to pick up my requested books and while I was there I picked this one up off of the Suggensted YA literature rack. I loved the fact atht it was about something that I have to teach about in my class (Global Warming as an affect of Human changes on the planet due to industialization). And for that aspect I really did enhoy it. It showed the impact that rising sea levels could have on human beings loves and they way that they interact with one another. There were other aspec...more
I've read 140 pages and then put it down. I was really looking forward to this book, when I saw the cover and read the blurb I decided I had to have this book and immediately ordered it. I mean the cover is so beautifull and the story sounded so original.
So now I am finally reading it and my enthousiasm got less every page. The story is about Mara, she lives on an island in the atlantic ocean. The sea is rising and soon there will be nothing left of their island. In her cyberwizz on the weave (...more
So now I am finally reading it and my enthousiasm got less every page. The story is about Mara, she lives on an island in the atlantic ocean. The sea is rising and soon there will be nothing left of their island. In her cyberwizz on the weave (...more
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Julie was born in Ayrshire and grew up near Glasgow, where she now lives with her family. After a degree in English Language and Literature, she was the editor of a small magazine, a teacher and a freelance journalist. Julie has written many critically-acclaimed, award-winning novels for teenagers and younger readers. She speaks in schools, libraries and at book festivals across the UK.
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