Superb storytelling, great characters and an environmental crisis — readers will hardly be able to wait for the second book in the trilogy. Free to conduct your lives in the classical manner, to escape this solar system, to populate the stars. De brave Bloem kan daarnaast herkend worden door vele kinderen, maar wanneer ze zich niet meer aan de regels houdt, zijn er ook weer herkenbare punten. Penguin Bloom is an extraordinary true story full of hope and courage, featuring Cameron Bloom's exceptional photographs and a captivating narrative by New York Times bestselling author Bradley Trevor Greive.

Who the hell takes a report on the situation to the school when everyone is having a witchhunt on the whodunnit? She discovers a mysterious pack of seeds with her best friend Neena and realises that good things happen when you break the rules… My favourite character was Neena; she loves science and she’s funny.At times I quite liked her and how she was discovering there was more to life than rules and being a stuck-up. When the plants turn carnivorous, Petra, Anaya, and Seth are the only ones able to withstand their strange perfumes and their acidic interiors, and they realize they must have something more in common. As plants take over the Earth, many die from strangulation, acid burns, and being drugged and then eaten. This book is mainly targetedtoa young adult audience, but I believe it can be appreciated by a wider audience.

Her rival for the job is handsome and wealthy Roman Kitt, whose prose entrances her so much she avoids reading his articles. Door het boek met een serieuze waarschuwing hiervoor te beginnen, is de toon eigenlijk meteen gezet en daardoor werd ik alleen maar nog nieuwsgieriger naar het verhaal.With the summer holidays, Ari dreams of leaving his city, his parents' bakery, going to live with friends and playing in a band. I fell in love with two Book Island books: ‘The Garden of Inside-Outside’ by Chiara Mezzalama and Régis Lejonc, and I think ‘The Bird Within Me’ by Sara Lundberg is stunning and I know I will read it again and again. A "big event" happens at one point in the book that felt unnecessarily dramatic, I wasn't a fan, but I like the sweet conclusion that doesn't make too much of it all, just enough. The saboteur turns out to be the Mycorea specialist Baucum, with whom Strasheim has developed a personal relationship. What difference does it make that Petra's mom is the police chief, Anaya's dad is the botanist studying the plants, and Dr.

With climate change teetering on irreversibility, today seems ripe for nature-versus-human fiction — and it might be hard not to root for nature. Readers are given a cliffhanger to start when one of the teens, Anaya, swoops over a remote island on a helicopter to find her dad, a botanist studying strange plants.

For Ari andHector,the focus is on their lives and struggles and letting their love bloom in a sweet and simple way.