SOLVED. Fiction, Children (middle school) about a boy that lives in a world that floods for a period of 50 years of so at a time. [s]

[Holly]

I read this book in 1996/1997, it was part of our 7th grade reading. It's fiction and about a world that floods for 50 years or so at a time. All the houses are several stories tall due to the flooding. There was a young boy that lived with his family on the upper story of their house, since it was flooding while he was young. They got around by boats. The boy went diving into the lower story of the house to gather some items. He had a girl as a friend and I remember an old man. That is all I remember.

[Holly]

I think the cover was a greenish/blue and it's not All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury.

[Rainbowheart]

Waterbound?

[Holly]

Thank you but that's not it. Even my classmates don't remember the book I'm looking for since it's been so long ago.

[Autumn]

Maggie Gee The Flood is it this one maybe?

[Autumn]

The Hundred-Year Flood

[Holly]

Thank you but those are not it. It was published on or before 1996.

[Autumn]

oh i didnt see the year sry

[Holly]

I appreciate the help. Plus those books look like good reads.

[Rainbowheart]

Did you read it in the USA? Or a different country?

Was it a classroom text, like it was handed out and read and discussed as a group? Seems like something that should be well known if that's the case.

[Holly]

It was read in the US and it was read and discussed as a class. I don't think it was a regular classroom text though.

[Rainbowheart]

Thanks for the info. Was it set on a future Earth, like in a world where the flooding was due to climate change? Or was it some alternate universe?

[Holly]

I honestly don't remember.

[Nathan]

I'm looking for the same book, I think; in my memory the book is science-fiction, set on an alien world, and the city was originally built by the indigenous aliens. I seem to remember the main character finding a flute?

[Nathan]

I think I found it! Sweetwater

[Holly]

Thank you Nathan I'm going reread it and see if it's this book! The cover looks familiar.

[Justanotherbiblophile]

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[Holly]

Thank you, I will do that. I ordered the book from my library so I can read it and see.

[Holly]

Nathan it was Sweetwater! Thank you so much!