A great middle school page-turner on a topic ot covered yet in much YA lit. ( )

I knew Richard on Bali and reviewed another book of his on the mass political killings on Bali in the mid-1960s.

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The Killing Sea by Richard Lewis- I enjoyed this book very much because I personally felt that I was getting a lot from this fiction novel. I enjoyed the writing and language in the story because the book is about surviving a tsunami in Indonesia, but the part that I liked the most was that the novel told two different children's stories during the same time. Although they eventually meet up, I found myself reading the book every minute of the day to find out what happened next and trying to keep up with both. I also enjoyed that one of the characters wasn’t from Indonesia, she was a stereotypical spoiled American girl, providing a multi-dimensional view of the region before and after the tsunami. I also enjoyed that the book encouraged the reader to think of tough issues such as friendship, survival, hardships, death, etc.

Shelved in the Sumatra section.