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Gr 8-Up Laura Brown's diary of 2015 charts the first year of carbon rationing in Great Britain. The global climate has declined so precipitously that the country has made the unilateral decision to cut its carbon emissions by 60 percent. Everyone is issued a card that tracks their allowable use of carbon for the year. This limits utility usage, travel, and purchase of anything that has been transported over a distance, including food. Laura has to cope with limits to hygiene, cell phone use, and practice time with her band and listen to lect...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

"Carbon footprint" is fast becoming the buzz-phrase du jour, and, in a brilliantly conceived speculative drama set six years in the future, first-time novelist Lloyd ex- trapolates a logical, world-changing application of the concept that is both optimistic and terrifying. Optimistic in that the government concocts and enforces a viable policy for the reduction of carbon emissions; terrifying in that the policy—in combination with power losses and food shortages, extreme weather, and the inevitable bureaucratic missteps—creates a volatile atmosphere...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

With equal amounts immediacy and tart humor, South London teen Laura chronicles in biting journal entries the first year of Britain's new, stri...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In Saci Lloyd’s ecothriller, Laura keeps a diary about life under Britian’s new carbon rationing system. Lloyd skillfully uses this intimate medium to transcend the merely personal and tell the story of an entire community coping with radical change. Some of Laura’s friends and family see economic opportunity in the messy new world order. Her sister, Kim, gets entangled with the carbon black market and the violent neighborhood gang that controls it. Her older friend, Kieran, tries to te...Log In or Sign Up to Read More