Diamand, Emily.

Raiders' ransom / Emily Diamand. - 1st American ed. - New York : Scholastic Inc., 2009. - 334 p. : map ; 22 cm.

"The Times winner, Children's Fiction Competition, Chicken House"--P. [4] of Jacket.

In 22nd-century Great Britain, where climate change has caused vast flooding, the piratical Reavers kidnap the Prime Minister's daughter and thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun, an English fisher-girl, takes her seacat on a daring rescue attempt, with a mysterious talking jewel from a past computer age tucked in her belt as ransom.



9780545142977 0545142970 9780545142984 (pbk.)

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Kidnapping--Juvenile fiction.
Pirates--Juvenile fiction.
Cats--Juvenile fiction.
Computers--Juvenile fiction.
Environmental degradation--Juvenile fiction.


Great Britain--Juvenile fiction.


Action and adventure fiction.

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