[ISLMA-Share] Have you heard of this book?

Tue Dec 5 10:12:19 CST 2017

I remembered-
Undertow by Michael Buckley
[image: Inline image 1]
Sixteen-year-old Lyric Walker’s life is forever changed when she witnesses
the arrival of 30,000 Alpha, a five-nation race of ocean-dwelling warriors,
on her beach in Coney Island. The world’s initial wonder and awe over the
Alpha quickly turns ugly and paranoid and violent, and Lyric’s small town
transforms into a military zone with humans on one side and Alpha on the
other. When Lyric is recruited to help the crown prince, a boy named
Fathom, assimilate, she begins to fall for him. But their love is a
dangerous one, and there are forces on both sides working to keep them
apart. Only, what if the Alpha are not actually the enemy? What if they are
in fact humanity’s only hope of survival? Because the real enemy is coming.
And it’s more terrifying than anything the world has ever seen.

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Currently reading: Wishtree by Katherine Applegate

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> The description doesn't fit exactly, but there's some similarities. Could
> it be A Nearer Moon by Melanie Crowder
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
> Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>> Hi everyone! I was hoping for some help figuring out the title of a book
>> with the following description. If you think you know what it is, feel free
>> to email me at: cloizon at orland135.org.
>>
>> Here are the details:
>>
>>    - People live in houses on stilts.
>>    - Children in a certain lineage have gills, but they don't know about
>>    it until they reach a certain age or milestone.
>>    - The main character is at a friend's house, and they get attacked by
>>    some kind of demon because he can smell her / sense that she is one of the
>>    "special" people who have this power.
>>    - The demon ends up kidnapping some siblings. The rest of the book is
>>    the characters trying to rescue the siblings.
>>    - They watch a demon ritual and one of the characters has to jump in,
>>    which is when they find out they have gills.
>>    - The grandma sees the gills as a curse.
>>
>>
>> Do you know what book this is? Thanks for any leads!
>>
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