After Tomorrow
By Gillian Cross
After Tomorrow is about Matt who is living in a small town outside London with his mother, step father, his brother Taco, and grandmother who has dementia.
In this place, at the time there is no use for money and the only thing that is useful is food which there is not much of. Aside from this, people start getting labeled as 'Scadgers' when they store or grow food. When the raiders attacked Matt's home for food, his mother decided that they needed to move away from the madness. So, they sneak across the border on the Channel Tunnel to France where they find things aren't much safer. They get sent to a refugee camp where they learn to live in tents and have swede, rice, beans and bread to eat.
I really like this book because it kept me always on the edge of my seat and was very interesting. I liked how it started with an action scene which told what the book would be like. It showed me how hard it was for some when they were going through hard times and how hard they worked to survive and help others survive. It proved the lengths they went to and that they had to step out of their comfort zone. I recommend this book for people from ages 9-10 up because it was a challenge for me to read and some times it got a little frighting.
This sounds interesting! What has happened to the world for money to have no value and food be so important?
ReplyDeleteThey move from that place (which is just outside London) to France
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