Book
Oculum Echo / Philippa Dowding.
Record details
- ISBN: 1770866655 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781770866652 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 220 pages
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : DCB, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 9-13. Grades 4-6. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 13.95 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Survival > Juvenile fiction. Farms > Juvenile fiction. Disasters > Juvenile fiction. |
| Genre: | Dystopias. Science fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | J FIC Dowdi | 31681020180147 | JFIC | Available | - |
- Orca Book Publishers
Key Selling Points
- The children of Oculum struggle to reach safety in the violent and destroyed world outside of their dome.
- The domes of Oculum were built to safeguard the future after devastating climate change and environmental destruction.
- The author was inspired to write a cli-fi novel after revisiting a glacier 30 years later and seeing how much it had melted.
- Philippa has written more than a dozen books of middle-grade fiction.
- Author won Governor Generalâs Award for Young Peopleâs Literature for Firefly, 2021
- Follow up novel to the award-nominated Oculum.
The explosions come in the night.
Miranda1, Mannfred, Grannie, and the one thousand children of Oculum must flee their farm, chased by the UnRuly and their bombs. Just as they begin their journey through the wasteland and towards the safety of the green valley, Echo1 wakes from an eighty-three-year sleep and is given a mission to find the four domes of the children of Oculum, and to find the First One, whatever the cost.
On the run from the UnRuly and their stolen weapons, the children endure plague and Black Rain. Yet, there is a whisper of hope. William1 and Jonatan Briar, two of the literate, ride to the northern sea to read a rare book, a book that will illuminate the secret to their survival.
Echo1 searches the wasteland for life and faces a choice: who must be protected in this new world? And what must be destroyed?
- Orca Book Publishers
As Echo1 wakes from an 83-year sleep to search for life in the wasteland, the children of Oculum flee the Unruly and their stolen weapons, desperately trying to reach the safety of MedFell Hall.
