Bibliograph

On a clear day, Walter Dean Myers

Type

Label

On a clear day, Walter Dean Myers

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

7 years and up

Literary Form

unknown

Main title

On a clear day

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

883349510

Responsibility statement

Walter Dean Myers

Summary

Young heroes decide that they are not too young or too powerless to change their world in this gripping, futuristic young adult novel by the New York Times bestselling author of the Printz Award'winning Monster. It is 2035. Teens, armed only with their ideals, must wage war on the power elite. Dahlia is a Low Gater: a sheep in a storm, struggling to survive completely on her own. The Gaters live in closed safe communities, protected from the Sturmers, mercenary thugs. And the C-8, a consortium of giant companies, control global access to finance, media, food, water, and energy resources'and they are only getting bigger and even more cutthroat. Dahlia, a computer whiz, joins forces with an ex-rocker, an ex-con, a chess prodigy, an ex-athlete, and a soldier wannabe. Their goal: to sabotage the C-8. But how will Sayeed, warlord and terrorist, fit into the equation' Myers, a National Ambassador for Young People's Literature (2012'2013), is one of the most popular novelists writing for teens today

Target audience

primary

Classification

Contributor