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The Carbon Diaries 2017
By Lloyd, Saci
Publishers Summary:
In this riveting sequel to the hit eco-thriller The Carbon Diaries 2015, Laura Brown, now a college student in London, chronicles the struggle England faces as the government tightens its grip on carbon rations. Laura is juggling two love interests, and her eco-punk band, the dirty angels, keeps landing gigs, so life is good...until a crackdown on rioting students forces her to flee the city. Then, on the bank's European tour, Laura finds herself at the center of a series of dangerous events. The angels have always sung about fighting corruption. Is it time for Laura to join the underground resistance movement and actually practice what the dirty angels preaches? As perceptive and compulsively readable as its prequel, this book raises provocative moral questions for today's young adults.
- ISBN
- 978-0-82342-260-9
- Publisher
- Holiday
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2010
Gr 7-Up This sequel to the frighteningly plausible "The Carbon Diaries 2015" (Holiday House, 2009) continues the saga of Laura Brown, a university student in London, following the apocalyptic climate changes that caused freezing temperatures, drought, and flooding. In the wake of global disaster, Great Britain imposed carbon rationing on its citizens, and everyone receives a card that tracks their allowable use of carbon and severely limits travel, utility usage, and, ultimately, food. Two years later, London has become a wasteland with mos...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2010
Two years after Britain momentously instituted a carbon rationing system and a series of natural disasters tested the already strained new social order (The Carbon Diaries 2015, rev. 5/09), punk teen Laura heads back to London and university. Almost immediately she is sucked into the political mayhem that rules the streets: an ecoterrorist group attracts boyfriend Adi; the terrifying rise of far-right white extremism in mainstream discourse has close-to-home effects. Laura's band becomes the voice of a p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on October 1, 2010
Punk teen Laura () heads back to London and university, where her band becomes the voice of a grassroots movement pro...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on February 15, 2010
- In the face of environmental and economic crises, Laura's gumption and spirited narration keep the book moving forward. Her diary entries are slang-...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
