G21 Book Review of Rootless by Chris Howard
Name of Book: Rootless Author: Chris Howard ISBN: 978-0-545-38789-7 Publisher: Scholastic Part of a Series: Rootless series perhaps? (This is book 1 it says at the end.) Type of book: Science fiction, post apocalypse, lack of trees, genetic modification, big corporation, journey, coming of age, forests Year it was published: 2012 Summary: 17-year-old Banyan is a tree builder. Using scrap metal and salvaged junk, he creates forests for rich patrons who seek a reprieve from the desolate landscape. Although Banyan's never seen a real tree—they were destroyed more than a century ago—his father used to tell him stories about the Old World. But that was before his father was taken . . . Everything changes when Banyan meets a woman with a strange tattoo—a clue to the whereabouts of the last living trees on earth, and he sets off across a wasteland from which few return. Those who make it past the pirates and poachers can't escape the locusts—the locusts that now...