The Mountains of Instead

Championing fiction as an escape from pandemics, politics and bad TV.

In Which I Appear To Champion Organised Crime... (Review: Restoring Harmony; J. Anthony)

Restoring Harmony Joelle Anthony Putnam Juvenile 2010
The year is 2041, and sixteen-year-old Molly McClure has lived a relatively quiet life on an isolated farming island in Canada, but when her family fears the worst may have happened to her grandparents in the US, Molly must brave the dangerous, cha…
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Swept Away? (Review: Sea by Heidi R. Kling)

Sea Heidi R. Kling Putnam 2010
Haunted by recurring nightmares since her mother’s disappearance over the Indian ocean three years before, fifteen-year old California girl Sienna Jones reluctantly travels with her psychiatrist father’s volunteer team to six-months post-tsunami Indonesia where she meets…
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