Raiders' ransom /
Emily Diamand ; [interior illustrations by Carol Lawson].
- First paperback printing, April 2011
- New York : Scholastic, 2009
- 334 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Sequel: Flood and fire.
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In 22nd-century Great Britain, where climate change has caused vast flooding, the piratical Reavers kidnap the Prime Minister's daughter and thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun, an English fisher-girl, takes her seacat on a daring rescue attempt, with a mysterious talking jewel from a past computer age tucked in her belt as ransom.