Memory Boy

By Will Weaver

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About the Book

Worldwide disaster strikes early in the new millennium. A chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions sends a cloud of ash into the atmosphere–three years later, the ash is still falling. Sunlight is scarce. Food is rationed. Cities are becoming wastlands of looting and murder. And sixteen-year-old Miles Newell is sure his family is in increasing danger.

Escaping Minneapolis on the Ali Princess– Miles’s startling invention–the Newells hope to find comparative safety int he country. But as the family travel deeper into rural Minnesota, they find that people everywhere have changed. No one can be trusted.

In this gripping adventure, a family leave behind all they’ve ever known to journey into the wilderness and an uncertain future.

Product Details

ISBN: 9780060288112

Imprint: HarperCollins

On Sale: Mar 6, 2001

List price: $15.99

No of pages: 160

Trim Size: 5.810 in (w) x 8.530 in (h) x 0.630 in (d)

BISAC 1: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy / General *

BISAC 2: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Action & Adventure / General *

BISAC 3: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Themes) *

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Will Weaver

Biography

Will Weaver is an award-winning fiction writer. His latest novel is The Survivors, a sequel to his popular young adult novel Memory Boy. His other books include Full Service, Defect, Saturday Night Dirt, Super Stock Rookie, Checkered Flag Cheater, Claws, and the Billy Baggs books Striking Out, Farm Team, and Hard Ball, all of which are ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Formerly an English professor at Bemidji State University, he lives in northern Minnesota, a region he writes from and loves. He is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys hunting, fishing, canoeing, and hiking with his family and friends.

Reviews

“Miles is a likeable, skateboarding wiseacre, full of fear and bravado, and always secretly hoping for his father’s approval.” — School Library Journal