The Isle

by Jordana Frankel

Overview

Readers who love speculative fiction and crave action-packed stories similar to Veronica Roth’s Divergent series will find The Isle absolutely unputdownable.

Jordana Frankel’s thrilling and imaginative novel The Isle takes up where The Ward left off, with drought season coming to a futuristic flooded New York City and its inhabitants suffering from a deadly disease called the Blight.

With the help of a scientist and a racing buddy, drag racer Ren has found a cure for the disease, and her sister, Aven, is on the mend. But Aven’s unexpected recovery has caught the eye of the evil Governor Voss. And when it comes to light that the cure, miraculous healing water, is the only freshwater source in the area, Governor Voss isn’t the only one after the sisters and their invaluable knowledge. Can they save themselves and their city?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062095374
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	01/19/2016
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.40(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Jordana Frankel is a creative-writing instructor at Writopia Lab and a former marketing associate at the Book Report Network. She received her BA from Goucher College and an MFA in creative writing from Hollins University. She currently lives in New York City. The Ward is her first novel.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for The Ward: “A highly imaginative, pulse-racing page-turner.” — Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author of the Gone series

“Ren is volatile, embittered, and dedicated to the adrenaline surge of racing, but she’s also gutsy, loyal, and at times surprisingly vulnerable. Frankel’s unforgiving, drowned New York serves as a formidable background for her survival story, the first in a planned series.” — Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

Praise for The Ward: “A highly imaginative, pulse-racing page-turner.

Michael Grant

01/01/2016
Gr 9 Up—The long-awaited sequel to The Ward (HarperCollins, 2013)! In the previous volume, readers met Ren, a 16-year-old girl who works two jobs—as a drag car racer and as a scout for the "Blues," a secret organization hunting for fresh water since the Wash-Out flooded New York and contaminated the water supply. The Isle picks up right where the previous volume ended, with Ren finding a potential new source of water that has miraculous healing properties, which she uses to save her sister, Aven, from the Blight, a virus killing many people in the Ward. While Ren wants to keep the source of water a secret and use it to save the disease-infected people, she faces two foes who want access to the water for very different agendas. One is Governor Voss, the very man who hired Ren to search for freshwater, while the second is the Tètai, an ancient secret order that has been protecting the water for generations. Purchase where dystopians are still popular.

School Library Journal

2015-10-14
After The Ward (2013), Ren must save her adopted sister, Aven, from Gov. Voss while keeping the newly discovered magical spring from him and his plans. Starting immediately where the previous book left off, Ren can't enjoy the celebration of the people for the miracle cure she delivered, because she knows Voss will experiment on Aven. She throws herself immediately into planning a rescue, which succeeds with difficulty and that leaves Aven promising to come back for her fellow prisoners. In this book the narration is split, with Aven's chapters giving insight into her personality and the world at large, though the device works best when the sisters are geographically separated, as at times (especially early on) their voices are quite similar. Meanwhile, with the Blight under control, there's lots of agitation to take on the next big trouble facing the Upper Metro Islets—freshwater availability—through war with water-rich Upstate. At many places the plot is composed of a series of rescues—not just from Voss and his men, but also from the Tètai, the people who guard the spring. Relief from the breakneck pace comes through revelations that, pieced together, explain various characters' motivations, unlock the mystery of Ren's heritage, and reveal other twists. The romance is mild; the protagonists' primary motivation rises from sisterly love. Readers are treated to a solid conclusion. Narrative distractions are overcome by action and character development in this duology closer. (Dystopian adventure. 12-16)

Kirkus Reviews