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Gr 4-7 While playing on pristine Long Pond Cay near their home in the Bahamas, 12-year-old Trey and 7-year-old Lou are transported to a nightmarish world that has almost been destroyed by pollution and overbuilding. The siblings make several visits to this Otherworld, where underground rebels take them under their wing, realizing that mute and mysterious Lou is the prophesied catalyst in the Greenwar they are waging. Meanwhile, in their own world, the children's grandparents are fighti...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

It's a tale of two worlds: an untouched Bahamian island threatened by development, and a dystopic Otherworld called Pangaia where development and pollution have already killed off most of the natural world. First-person narrator Trey (who could be a boy or a girl; Cooper is nonspecific) and Trey's silent little brother Lou shift between the two, in their everyday lives helping their grandfather petition against those who want to turn Long Pond Cay into a resort, and sometimes, when the tide is slack, traveling through to Pangaia where an anti-government Underground fighting a "Greenwar" believe Lou is the answer to a prophecy. Cooper records the natural beauty of t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More