Code Blue, Paperback

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Contributor(s):Author: Marissa Slaven Code Blue is a YA speculative thriller mystery set in a not-so-distant future where rising temperatures and sea levels have dramatically reshaped the world in which we live. Author Marissa Slaven keeps you hanging page after page as the story unfolds. Young adults and teenagers who worry about our planet will get something from this novel and at the same time relate to it on a personal level as they worry about their immediate futures: can I get into the college I want-and their planet's present and future: how will global warming change our home, our lives?The novel opens with sixteen-year-old Atlantic ""Tic"" Brewer about to take the North Eastern Science Academy entrance exam, the gateway to attending the world-renown school known for fostering the leading scientists fighting climate change. It's just Tic and her mom at home--before she was born, her dad was tragically killed in a boating accident while he was on a research trip in the North Atlantic. He was a hydrologist, and Tic wants nothing more than to continue her father's research and help stave off the impending crisis of rising sea levels. That's where the NESA comes in. When Tic's acceptance letter arrives, she's thrilled and a little anxious. But before she can get settled at the prestigious boarding school, she finds a mysterious note that says ""just in case"" and a strange sequence of numbers on the back of a photograph her mom sent with her, the last snapshot taken of her dad and mom together before his trip. Did he know something was going to happen to him? Tic enlists the help of her new friends to track down any clues about her father's research, and while working on her own hydrology project, Tic discovers some startling facts of her own. Life on Earth might be much more precarious than anyone has let on.