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Format:
Book
Title:
Lighthouse island
ISBN:
9780062232502

9780062293596

9780062232519
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
New York, NY : William Morrow, [2013]
Physical Description:
392 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
"A novel"--Jacket.
Contents:
On a hot, dry day a four-year old girl named Raisa was taken out into a busy street by her parents and abandoned. As young Raisa is passed among orphanages and foster families, she is renamed Nadia Stepan and learns to don new personas as needed. She also learns to escape into the world of her imagination, a verdant place of freedom and adventure -- things she is able to conjure thanks to the old, neglected books she read as a child. When an opportunity presents itself, she risks her life to escape to Lighthouse Island, where she certain her parents will be found ...
Summary:
In the coming centuries the world's population has exploded. The earth's crowded with cities, animals are nearly all extinct, and drought's so widespread that water is rationed. There are no maps, no borders, no numbered years, and no freedom, except for an elite few. It's a harsh world for an orphan like Nadia Stepan, and she dreams of a green vacation spot called Lighthouse Island, in a place called the Pacific Northwest.
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