Green Boy

On their idyllic Bahamian island, Trey's little brother, Lou, is different -- he doesn't speak and he suffers frightening seizures. But when he and Trey find themselves mysteriously transported to Pangaia, an alternative universe where pollution and over-development have all but destroyed nature, a militant underground environmental group greets him as the prophesied hero who will save their world. But to realize this prophecy, Lou must take Trey on a terrifying and dangerous mission, with much more at stake than the fate of Pangaia. Does Lou have the power to save their own island home from a future as bleak as the world they've seen in Pangaia?

Author: Susan Cooper
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 7.66h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780689847608

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.8
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 58516 / Green Boy


Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 10/06/2003 pg. 87
Black Issues Book Review 03/01/2004 pg. 69

About the Author
Susan Cooper is one of our foremost fantasy authors; her classic five-book fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising has sold millions of copies worldwide. Her books' accolades include the Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and five shortlists for the Carnegie Medal. She combines fantasy with history in Victory (a Washington Post Top Ten Books for Children pick), King of Shadows, Ghost Hawk, and her magical The Boggart and the Monster, second in a trilogy, which won the Scottish Arts Council's Children's Book Award. Susan Cooper lives on a saltmarsh island in Massachusetts, and you can visit her online at TheLostLand.com.