two degrees
Starting in the year 2039, we follow fifteen-year-old Lexey when she is forced from her home in York by flooding, and goes to stay at her Aunt Jenny’s farm, high on the North York Moors.
Lexey’s father is missing abroad, and when her aunt joins her mother in her search for him, Lexey is left alone with no power, no means of communication and rapidly dwindling food supplies.
Review by @young_adult_reads_
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This book starts off with some really strong worldbuilding. In this story the global warming had taken over and most towns are flooded. It's almost a dystopian Outlook created by men. We het to know Lexey, a 15year old that had been training to deal with floodings all her life. Her father is missing. After a bad floodings she is sent to live with her aunt but after she leaves to get her mother and disappears, Lexey is left on her own. It isn't long until het little family expands though, with one of the most important members being Finn. With her "new" family Lexey learns to survive on her own. Growing her farm and taking care of the house. She faces struggles and overcomes them.
This book shows the problems the world could face because of global warming. It's a warning.
Lexey is a strong, young woman. Even though she is only 15, she feels my age(18) or even older. She is so mature, so independent. We should all learn something from Her. Her kindness. Her strength. Her ways of protecting the earth. Living in sync with nature is possible and Lexey and her family teach us how it's done.
This story is also one of young love. Of 2 teenagers finding each other while having to grow up too fast.
It's a story of communities learning to help each other. Live with each other. It's a story about treating others the same way you wanted to be treated.
This is another book that made me think. It made me think of the small things that i forgot that have An influence on the global warming. The things we all can do to stop it. It made me realise how big this issue is. It also made me realise how strength van come from kindness. Hoe helping others is always the right choice to make.
This story is really strong and compelling. It's so good that I finished it in one sitting. It's amazing.
Review in Publisher's Weekly (https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781800162006)
Fifteen-year-old Lexey struggles to navigate countrywide flooding and ongoing ecological catastrophe after becoming separated from her family in this dystopian drama, set in 2039 Yorkshire, England. When devastating floods cut Lexey off from her parents, she’s forced up north to the Yorkshire Moors to take refuge on her idiosyncratic aunt Jenny’s farm. There, she reconnects with—and falls for—childhood friend Finn O’Connell, and welcomes other disaster survivors from myriad locales.
Though some newcomers are not as gracious as others, Lexey, Finn, and their growing found family remain adamant that they should provide aid to as many people as they can, believing that kindness in the face of adversity and a seemingly bleak future is the only path toward survival. Lexey’s life is not without levity; her and Finn’s feel-good budding romance culminates in a hopeful resolution.
Illingworth (The Allotments) capably tackles topics such as climate disaster, death, and grief—and their subsequent effects on one’s mental health—and details what everyday life could look like should global warming and the mistreatment of the planet continue. Characters read as white. Ages 12–up.