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Snowflake, AZ
Snowflake, AZ | Marcus Sedgwick
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A timely, contemporary novel challenging ideas around health - our own and our planet's - and the stigma that persists around illness, by Printz Medallist and internationally bestselling novelist, Marcus Sedgwick. Ash has lived in eight states in as many years. Mom has gone walkabout, but stepdad Jack is like a father, and stepbrother Bly the best anyone could wish for. When Bly goes missing too, Ash sets off to search for him - and finds something much bigger: the sickness of the world. Arriving in Snowflake, Arizona, Ash discovers Bly living with a community 6000 feet high in the wide red desert. They call themselves the Canaries and all suffer from some kind of environmental illness. They are ostracised by modern society, as it continues to ignore climate change, global warming and so much more of our self-inflicted poisoning of the planet. When Ash takes ill, the doctor's response is, 'it's all in your mind'. In a story spanning seven years with triumphs and tragedies, Ash learns how to live as the world is pushed to a point of no return. This humane and deeply thoughtful novel is about resilience, trust, family and love.
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kelli7990
Snowflake, AZ | Marcus Sedgwick
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Mehso-so

I‘m sharing my review for another book I read for #bookoplathon. This completes the prompt Young Adult.

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Missusb
Snowflake, AZ | Marcus Sedgwick
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A book set in the desert, deserves a #desertrose 🌷 tiny though it be. #currentlyreading #preview for Oz #aprilrso2020 #healthoftheplanet #multiplechemicalsensitivity #gogaia

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ElishaLovesBooks
Snowflake, AZ | Marcus Sedgwick
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Powerful take on what it is to be chronically ill and not understood by the medical establishment. It‘s also interesting to read this book through the lens of the author‘s experiences with his own illness. Very well done.

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ElishaLovesBooks
Snowflake, AZ | Marcus Sedgwick
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Trying to get back to posting. . . currently reading this and enjoying while also learning a lot. The best kind of reading 😊

mabell Nice to see you back! 😊 I check in on others‘ posts often, but I find it much harder to get in posts myself. 5y
ElishaLovesBooks @mabell Thank you! 💗 Life seems to have gotten more complicated and busy but I really love Litsy and the community! 5y
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