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Gr 8 Up—What if, instead of a warmer future, "every thing got proper cold"? What if "the seas stopped working," and those who didn't move to the crowded, smelly cities approved by the government became "stealers" and "stragglers" and lived off the grid? Russia and China are big influences in this new order, and the yuan is the preferred currency. Willo's family are stragglers, living in the frigid mountains of Wales. Willo has a talent for hunting and helps his father turn hides into finely crafted coats, boots, and glov...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Fifteen-year-old Willo tires of the grown-ups' stories of "the old time, before the sea stop working, before the snow start to fall and fall and fall and don't stop." All he has ever known is this future ice-age world, and his family roughing it on the mountain. His trapping skills help with their survival, but one day he returns home to find his family gone, stranding him in the frozen mountains of Wales. He sets off toward the city in search of h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Fifteen-year-old Willo and his family live in a future ice-age world. One day he comes home to find his family gone, stranding...Log In or Sign Up to Read More