A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, A Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out

ISBN: 0593643879

Author: Day, Nicholas

Condition: New

The true story of how a massive catastrophic eruption plunged the world into darkness, altering the global climate and inspiring the likes of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein-from the award-winning author of The Mona Lisa Vanishes and featuring black-and-white illustrations throughout.A tour-de-force for our times . . . At once a heart-stopping tale of climate change and a profoundly hopeful call to action.-Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal winner for The One and Only IvanA ROBERT F. SIBERT HONOR BOOK A YALSA EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION FINALIST A SCBWI GOLDEN KITE AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Horn Book, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, The Boston GlobeThe world was upside-down. The wind was fire. The sky was ash. The rain was rock.A couple of hundred years ago, on a quiet Indonesian island, a volcano called Tambora erupted with a force and violence that changed history.It tore apart the island, and in the months and years that followed, its fallout tore apart the world. The sun refused to shine; the rain refused to stop. Everything that everyone assumed would always be there-a world that made sense, a climate that made sense-was suddenly gone.From this riot of thunder and lightning, a young woman named Mary Shelley conceived of a scientist and his cursed creature. From the nightmare of Tambora, she wrote a nightmare of a book: Frankenstein-a terrifying reminder of how much damage we humans might do, without even realizing it.This is the story of a volcano that changed the world and a creature that changed us.Once upon a time, everything was different. And no one knew if it would ever be the same.In this masterful work, Nicholas Day, author of the Sibert Award-winning The Mona Lisa Vanishes, brings us a story taken from the archives but seemingly scripted for us today: a tale of climate change and human folly and hope-and what happens when the world suddenly goes wrong.