The Country of Ice Cream Star
Sandra Newman
3.63 · 16 ratings · Published: 10 Nov 2014
From Guardian First Book Award finalist Sandra Newman comes an ambitious and extraordinary novel of a future in which bands of children and teens survive on the detritus--physical and cultural--of a collapsed America. When her brother is struck down by Posies--a contagion that has killed everyone by their late teens for generations--fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star pursues the rumour of a cure and sets out on a quest to save him, her tribe and what's left of their future. Along the way she faces broken hearts and family tragedy, mortal danger and all-out war--and much growing up for the girl who may have led herself and everyone she loves to their doom.
- sc-fi 4
- dystopia 3
- apocalyptic 3
- post-apocalyptic 3
- literary fiction 3
- war/big battles 3
- action / adventure 2
- epidemy/disease 2
- survival 2
- contemporary 2
- friendship 2
- protagonists of colour 2
- religion 2
- female mc 1
- mystery 1
- military 1
- urban fantasy 1
- military, war & conflict 1
- disaster/catastrophe 1
- spirituality 1
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- young adult 3
- audiobook 3
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