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Memory Boy
Memory Boy
Memory Boy
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Memory Boy

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Ash is still falling from the sky two years after a series of globally devastating volcanic eruptions. Sunlight is as scarce as food, and cities are becoming increasingly violent as people loot and kill in order to maintain their existence. Sixteen-year-old Miles Newell knows that the only chance his family has of surviving is to escape from their Minneapolis suburban home to their cabin in the woods, As the Newells travel the highways on Miles' supreme invention, the Ali Princess, they have high hopes for safety and peace. But as they venture deeper into the wilderness, they begin to realize that it's not only city folk who have changed for the worse.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperTeen
Release dateAug 21, 2012
ISBN9780062241689
Memory Boy
Author

Will Weaver

Will Weaver is an award-winning fiction writer. His latest novel is The Survivors, a sequel to his popular young adult novel Memory Boy. His other books include Full Service, Defect, Saturday Night Dirt, Super Stock Rookie, Checkered Flag Cheater, Claws, and the Billy Baggs books Striking Out, Farm Team, and Hard Ball, all of which are ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Formerly an English professor at Bemidji State University, he lives in northern Minnesota, a region he writes from and loves. He is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys hunting, fishing, canoeing, and hiking with his family and friends.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    This book is special! It's fun, realistic, sad & educational all at once! Inspired me to learn survival skills just in case something forces me out of my home like Miles & his family! I've read this series once or twice already & I'll end up reading this book again n again, it's one of my favorites! I just wish it was longer & had more than 2 books in the series. Actually.... With how things are nowadays, I really think Will should write a third book for Memory Boy and his family! I hope he hears of my review and satisfy his fan's wishes!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    So I picked up this book thinking it seemed familiar. Then I began reading it, and realized I had read it before, but you know what? It was good enough to read twice, and I'm glad there's a sequel!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    In this post apocalyptic science fiction novel by Minnesota author Will Weaver, the Newell family make the decision to travel on a contraption created by Miles to travel from Minneapolis to the Bemidji area in order to escape the violence and economic strife in the city to an easier, safer way of life.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I enjoyed this story, its characters and setting. I love a good apocalypse story ( I have not read one better than The Road), but this is a YA book I read with my kids, aged 10 and 13. We all enjoyed the story, read it quickly and found it compelling. I loved the concept and characters, but felt the author could have tightened up the holes in the plot by writing a longer book. I felt in several places that the events were unbelievable, especially as the family moves from town to town and particularly when they arrive at their final destination. Maybe some ya fiction doesn't transition to older adults as easily, or maybe it just bugged me that the parents were almost useless in this story, while their son repeatedly saves the day.At any rate, all three of us enjoyed the story, which in parts is very exciting, even nerve racking. It is a good book to share with your children, just to start a dialogue about how different things have been and could be and what skills they would need to survive in a different kind of world.

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