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The Mayflower Project (Remnants #1)
by
Katherine Applegate (Goodreads Author)
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K. A. Applegate moves from her popular Animorphs series into outer space with The Mayflower Project, a sci-fi thriller with world-annihilating excitement. At the heart of this futuristic tale of suspense is an asteroid destined to slam into the earth with such force that it will likely shatter the planet into pieces. With only days until the im...more
K. A. Applegate moves from her popular Animorphs series into outer space with The Mayflower Project, a sci-fi thriller with world-annihilating excitement. At the heart of this futuristic tale of suspense is an asteroid destined to slam into the earth with such force that it will likely shatter the planet into pieces. With only days until the im...more
Paperback, 178 pages
Published
July 1st 2001
by Scholastic Paperbacks
(first published June 1st 2001)
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I've always been a huge fan of Katherine Applegate's Animorphs and Everworld series, and enjoyed every re-reading. It never occurred to me until recently to pick up Remnants, partly because no fan of Applegate ever talked about the series.
After reading the first book, I think I know why.
Plot Summary
The world is ending. Not because of a nuclear meltdown or global warming, which is presumably under our own control, but for cataclysmic events out of our control.
Namely...
Hopelessly underprepared,...more
After reading the first book, I think I know why.
Plot Summary
The world is ending. Not because of a nuclear meltdown or global warming, which is presumably under our own control, but for cataclysmic events out of our control.
Namely...
Hopelessly underprepared,...more
Aug 27, 2011
Madison Salem
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Hmm, suppose it's okay... I kinda prefer her other series, Animorphs. With Remnants, you pretty much have to read the books in the correct order so you can understand everything; you don't have to do that so much with Animorphs, not until the very end at least. My local library doesn't always have certain books avalible because all copies are checked out or destroyed or whatever, which makes it hard to read series like this... Anyway, getting off topic. Remnants is sort of unrealistic right now,...more
Why am I rereading books for teens/young adults? Call it nostalgia - I think I'm trying to recreate the joy I felt as a kid when I read books for fun. Maybe it'll help me get over the automatic lethargy I experience when picking up a book to read nowadays.
Anyways, I picked this book up again primarily to revist K.A. Applegate's vision of the year 2010-2011, and whether her vision from 2001 of the future would match up to today. To her credit, she basically took some of the newer technologies an...more
Anyways, I picked this book up again primarily to revist K.A. Applegate's vision of the year 2010-2011, and whether her vision from 2001 of the future would match up to today. To her credit, she basically took some of the newer technologies an...more
The book "Remnants" was not the greatest of the many books i have read but it was still a legit novel. I chose this book to read because my when i read the summary it seemed very interesting. The summary basically said it was about an asteroid that was going to destroy earth but there is one shuttle that will leave earth and only take a few amount of people, including Jobs the main character and his family. This book had lots of action, adventure, and suuspense all which i like in books. The aut...more
Dec 20, 2012
Nicole
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Sci-fi, Dystopian, Thriller, Suspense lovers and more.
Recommended to Nicole by:
My Sister, Michelle
Holy this is not a book for kids.
This book may be under two hundred pages in length but it is intense in a way very few books I've read have ever been. It's still got my heart racing a little bit to be honest. My heart is RACING! Holy crap! Do you know how odd it is that a book would thrill me this much?! And this is a middle-grade or young-adult book? THIS is a book for young teens?! This book is INSANE! In the best, most gripping, suspenseful, thrilling, horrifying, amazing, disgusting, shocki...more
I realize this a series for older children...early teens? maybe. But i found this book in with a whole set of Animorph books i bought for one of my adopted Grandsons. I found the books at our local Salvation Army store. Now i am hooked! Remnants is packed with good story telling and truly makes you want to keep reading the story. Sigh! i am now searching the used book stores for these books. There are 14 in the series. It starts out with a group of people leaving earth....how does she tell this...more
I was five when I read this book and I loved it then as much as I do now. I think I might need to reread it though in order to refresh my memory of some of the characters but I know for sure I would recommend it.
This book reminds me of the movie 2012. In this futuristic story the government knows the Apocalsypse is upon us and they begin quickly building a shuttle to another planet with experimental technology including things like hibernation pods. The seats on this shuttle off our doomed plan...more
This book reminds me of the movie 2012. In this futuristic story the government knows the Apocalsypse is upon us and they begin quickly building a shuttle to another planet with experimental technology including things like hibernation pods. The seats on this shuttle off our doomed plan...more
David Upshall 205 English class
Did you find that the book fulfilled your expectations? Where you disappointed?
The book definatly fulfilled my expectations I thought the book was amazing, i saw the cover and was automatically interested. I was disappointed by the ending, because it ended so abruptly. I thought it was going to end dramatically like the rest of the book.
Did you enjoy the book? Why? Why not?
Yes. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it because it was different. It wasn’t like other book where i...more
Did you find that the book fulfilled your expectations? Where you disappointed?
The book definatly fulfilled my expectations I thought the book was amazing, i saw the cover and was automatically interested. I was disappointed by the ending, because it ended so abruptly. I thought it was going to end dramatically like the rest of the book.
Did you enjoy the book? Why? Why not?
Yes. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it because it was different. It wasn’t like other book where i...more
Better than her previous series, Animorphs, this is a solid sci-fi intro to a new world. Modern, believable protagonists are thrown into an interesting situation, and I enjoy her vision of the world in 10 years.
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I actually wasn't expecting much from this book-short, young adult book where an asteroid is going to hit and destroy the earth. Earth has a last ditch hurried effort to build a type of Noah's Ark of people in pods, technology that's not done being tested, etc. Chapters are short, kind of nice. Jumps around between a lot of different perspectives, but I thought they were interesting and well done-characterization was done pretty well, especially since there was such a short amount of time to dev...more
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Rating: 4.5/5
Remnants! A series written by Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant back in 2001 about an asteroid that's going to destroy Earth. NASA gives eighty people a chance to survive; they'll be sent off into space to a planet that they hope is habitable. The series faded off into obscurity fairly quickly after it was written, now being out of print and forgotten... to everyone except me. I'm actually reading this book for the first time, if you can believe it. That just shows you how big o...more
Remnants! A series written by Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant back in 2001 about an asteroid that's going to destroy Earth. NASA gives eighty people a chance to survive; they'll be sent off into space to a planet that they hope is habitable. The series faded off into obscurity fairly quickly after it was written, now being out of print and forgotten... to everyone except me. I'm actually reading this book for the first time, if you can believe it. That just shows you how big o...more
I skimmed the first three books in the series many years ago after I finished Anamorphs and never got any further, but returned after I became addicted to, and finished, Everworld, and needed an Applegate fix.
I have to say that this book is really amazing, as well as being a lot darker then most other traditional science fiction stories which it bares a resemblance to (which is what turned me off slightly the first time I started the series). I'm also in the middle of Dune Messiah at the moment,...more
I have to say that this book is really amazing, as well as being a lot darker then most other traditional science fiction stories which it bares a resemblance to (which is what turned me off slightly the first time I started the series). I'm also in the middle of Dune Messiah at the moment,...more
I picked up the first 4 books in this series because I absolutely loved Applegate's Everworld series. So I thought I would try this one as well. I love sci-fi and like to read 'end of the world' books so this sounded right up my alley. I decided to go ahead and start the series even though I only have the first 4 and there are a total of 14, because my dd read this book and said that she did not care for it.
I am currently on #4 and all I can say is 'Waaahhhhaaaa!! I don't have anymore of the ser...more
I am currently on #4 and all I can say is 'Waaahhhhaaaa!! I don't have anymore of the ser...more
I really liked the Mayflower Project because it had lots of adventure and it is suppoed to happen in the future when the book was made in 2001 but in the book it is 2011 and everything that happens is supposed to be in 2011. The main idea in this book is that the world is ending by a big asteroid and 80 people have been chosen nto go on a ship into space to somewhere nobody knows. My favorite part in the book was when Jobs saw and described what happened to the eaarth from space.I can't wait to...more
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"Remnants the mayflower project is one of the best books I've read in my life. This book by K.A applegate is about an asteroid that destroys earth and only 80 people escape. This book has drama and action becauase the escape the suspense of whats going to happen to the people that escape. Also it has many describing the conflict, because it shows all feelings perfectly. For these reasons I totally recomend it.
Honestly? I had found the premise good enough and the story was interesting. I also wanted to know more about the characters, save for one. But I can only rate this three stars, unlike the first book of Animorphs, because I couldn't bring myself to like Jobs in this book at least. His reaction was realistic, yes, but he was still annoying and selfish. Maybe you'd like it more than me.
The Mayflower Project is a Science Fiction novel about an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Only a few are chosen to board a space ship and survive the end of the world. The book slowly introduces all the different characters that will board the futuristic space craft and as the book continues the end of the world draws closer.
A good read with more in the series to come!
A good read with more in the series to come!
Like OMG! Like when I was an elementary school librarian, I like found this series and read every book in the in the like the whole series like I was 14 years old!
I was well into adulthood when I became addicted to these sci-fi kids books. I'm a little ashamed to say that I loved them!
I was well into adulthood when I became addicted to these sci-fi kids books. I'm a little ashamed to say that I loved them!
I went through most of this series in HS. I don't remember much other than I liked the plot and KA Apllegate's knack for describing things enough that I could picture what was happening in my head but not too much so I couldn't use some imagination.
This was one of the first books I've read. I read this even before the Harry Potter Series. Anyways, it was somehow awesome. I cant remember much the details. I was like 8 or 9 when I read this
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This book was good, but after I read it, I started getting nightmares for a while, so be warned! Then again, I was only nine years old, so the whole topic kind of scared me.
This is such a good series, but it chills me to the bone every time I read it. It could be realistic, and it is also so sad about what happened. A wonderful apocolypse book.
Wow! What a fantastic first book in this series. I found myself emotionally moved, and mourning for Earth, those who died, and those who survived. Can't wait to read the next!
I remember reading this series a long time ago and I really liked it. Despite it's weirdness. Although I don't remember how far I got into the series. Hmmmmm....
I was a bit confused as to what this book would turn out like, but I liked it. Applegate strikes again with a new and odd science fiction universe with new twists.
Jul 24, 2011
Jackie Krasuski
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The idea behind these books really got my attention because it is life after the end of the world, however after the Animorphs series and Everworld this was quite a letdown. Besides that, the whole end of the world thing is becoming a real redundant theme lately.
Good idea, but a little too violent and abrupt. Could use some subtly to make the whole thing more real and relatable.
OMG! This book was so... amazing. I believe that end of the world will come some time. And this book made my nightmare alive.. Read this!
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Applegate was born in Michigan in 1956. Since then she has lived in Texas, Florida, California, Minnesota, Illinois, North Carolina, and after living in Pelago, Italy for a year, she has moved back to Southern California. She has an eleven year old son named Jake Mates, although she says the Animorph leader is not named after him. In 2003 she and her husband, Michael Grant, her co-author on many p...more
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