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.