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Salvage Hardback - 2014

by Alexandra Duncan

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Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated deep space merchant ship Parastrata, faces betrayal, banishment, and death. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean, in this thrilling, surprising, and thought-provoking debut novel that will appeal to fans of Across the Universe, by Beth Revis, and The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. Internationally bestselling author Stephanie Perkins called it "brilliant, feminist science fiction."

Ava is the captain's daughter. This allows her limited freedom and a certain status in the Parastrata's rigid society--but it doesn't mean she can read or write or even withstand the forces of gravity. When Ava learns she is to be traded in marriage to another merchant ship, she hopes for the best. After all, she is the captain's daughter. But instead, betrayal, banishment, and a brush with love and death are her destiny, and Ava stows away on a mail sloop bound for Earth in order to escape both her past and her future. The gravity almost kills her. Gradually recuperating in a stranger's floating cabin on the Gyre, a huge mass of scrap and garbage in the Pacific Ocean, Ava begins to learn the true meaning of family and home and trust--and she begins to nourish her own strength and soul. This sweeping and harrowing novel explores themes of choice, agency, rebellion, and family, and after a tidal wave destroys the Gyre and all those who live there, ultimately sends its main character on a thrilling journey to Mumbai, the beating heart of Alexandra Duncan's post-climate change Earth. An Andre Norton Award nominee.

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Her life is a shadow of a life. Her future is not her own to fashion.

Her family is a tangle of secrets. She cannot read. She cannot write.

But she is Parastrata Ava, the Captain's eldest daughter, the so girl of a long-range crewe--her obligations are grave and many.

And when she makes a mistake, in a fragrant orchard of lemons, the consequences are deadly.

There are some who would say, there but for the Mercies go I.

There are some who would say Parastrata Ava is just a silly earthstruck girl who got what was coming to her.

But they don't know the half of it.

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  • Title Salvage
  • Author Alexandra Duncan
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 528
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Greenwillow Books
  • Publication date 2014-04
  • ISBN 9780062220141 / 0062220144
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.8 in (21.34 x 14.22 x 4.57 cm)
  • Age range 13 to UP years
  • Grade levels 8 - UP
  • Reading level 730
  • Themes
    • Topical: Coming of Age
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Young Adult Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Choice
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013045267
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 03/15/2014, Page 78
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 06/01/2014, Page 513
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2014, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 03/01/2014, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/19/2014, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 02/01/2014, Page 102
  • Shelf Awareness, 04/18/2014, Page 0
  • Voice of Youth Advocates, 04/01/2014, Page 0
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