The Carbon Diaries 2017 - Softcover

Lloyd, Saci

3.44

697 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823423905 ISBN 13: 9780823423903

Publisher: Holiday House, 2011

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In this riveting sequel to the hit eco-thriller The Carbon Diaries 2015, Laura Brown, now a college student in London, chronicles the struggle England faces as the government tightens its grip on carbon rations. Laura is juggling two love interests, and her eco-punk band, the dirty angels, keeps landing gigs, so life is good...until a crackdown on rioting students forces her to flee the city. Then, on the bank's European tour, Laura finds herself at the center of a series of dangerous events. The angels have always sung about fighting corruption. Is it time for Laura to join the underground resistance movement and actually practice what the dirty angels preaches?

As perceptive and compulsively readable as its prequel, this book raises provocative moral questions for today's young adults.

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About the Author:

Saci Lloyd has worked as a script editor for Camouflage Films, where she was involved in several projects including a $20m Columbia Tri-Star co-production, Amy Foster. She is now head of Media at Newham Sixth Form College.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 7 Up—This sequel to the frighteningly plausible The Carbon Diaries 2015 (Holiday House, 2009) continues the saga of Laura Brown, a university student in London, following the apocalyptic climate changes that caused freezing temperatures, drought, and flooding. In the wake of global disaster, Great Britain imposed carbon rationing on its citizens, and everyone receives a card that tracks their allowable use of carbon and severely limits travel, utility usage, and, ultimately, food. Two years later, London has become a wasteland with most people moving to outlying areas, leaving buildings empty of everything but squatters and rats. Neo-Nazis are marching in the streets, the police are out in force quelling rioters, and Laura and her friends are caught in the middle of the conflict between the current corrupt government and the citizens of London as they fight for their personal freedoms and the future of their country. Ultimately, their band and the revolutionary music they perform turn the tide in favor of the people. As in the first book, Laura narrates the story through her diary, complete with angry futuristic slang, images of newspaper clippings, advertisements, and black-and-white photos. This dark eco-thriller is reflective of the growing concern over global warming and decreasing resources and more terrifying in many ways than the ever popular vampire/thriller genre. Fans of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother (Tor, 2008) and Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life as We Knew It (Harcourt, 2006) should be steered in Lloyd's direction.—Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK
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