The Flood: The Dangerous Exploits of Three Girls, a Cat and a Boat (The Elizabeth Books)

Bartlett, Wendy

ISBN 10: 1944907009 / ISBN 13: 9781944907006

Published by Kensington Hill Books, 2017

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Seller Inventory # I-9781944907006

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Flood: The Dangerous Exploits of Three Girls, a Cat and a Boat (The Elizabeth Books)
• Publisher: Kensington Hill Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1944907009
• ISBN 13: 9781944907006
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

When eleven-year-old Elizabeth is left to babysit her four-year-old sister one rainy night, neither of them expect the adventure that unfolds. Their parents don’t return home, and by morning there is a flood that fills the first floor of their house.Elizabeth must take initiative and make an agonizing decision: whether to stay put where her parents might find them, or to be brave and leave home to go in search of their parents. Dangers loom in either scenario. Then Elizabeth and her sister Amanda rescue a neighbor, seven-year-old Maya, and her cat. In this adventure for girls, the three lost children and the cat together set out in a little red boat, looking for their mothers and fathers. As they struggle to survive the flood waters, find food, and make their way among the ruins left behind by the rising tides, the quest forces Elizabeth to rise to new levels of courage, bravery, and resourcefulness she didn’t know she had. But will they find their families before it’s too late?

Even though this book is classified for ages 9-12, younger children might be able to read this as well.

About the Author

Wendy started singing and writing folk songs in her teens. She has always written poetry and has had some poems published in the San Francisco Writers Conference Anthology and the Redwood Writers Anthology. She has been a teacher of young children for many years, has written, illustrated and published a few children’s books, and also writes YA and adult novels. Wendy is interested in the Indie publishing world and is a member of the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA) and the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA). Her daughter, Elizabeth Stark, is a traditionally published writer, a well-respected online writing teacher and also teaches writing in person in the Bay Area. (BookWritingWorld.com). Wendy Bartlett won second prize at the San Francisco Writers Conference for the manuscript for Cellini’s Revenge: The Mystery of the Silver Bowls. With the prize, part of which was a publishing package, she published first Broad Reach, a sailing adventure, and two years later, Cellini’s Revenge. At the time of this writing, Cellini’s Revenge II is in the process of being edited and Cellini’s Revenge III is in the process of being written. An editor from BAIPA told Wendy that Goodbye With a Kiss, her most recent novel, might make a good film. Wendy is currently writing the screenplay for it.