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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
STARRED Book Review: Deluge
Deluge by Carolyn Watson Dubisch & Mike Dubisch Genre: Middle Grade / Graphic Novel ISBN: 9781312369603 Print Length: 50 pages Reviewed by Kathy L. Brown In Deluge: The People That Melt in the Rain, a stranger comes t…
In Deluge: The People That Melt in the Rain, a stranger comes to town. Yet it's the town itself that's strange; the new girl, Laura, appears to be perfectly normal. Laura and her mom move to Deluge for a new, perhaps too-good-to-be true, job.
But they are immediately confronted by a frog-infested rain shower, a wonderful opening scene for the graphic novel. It strikes Laura as odd that the residents regard this event as more of a bother than a remarkable occurrence.
Most Deluge people are nice enough, and Laura is quickly befriended by an elderly neighbor and Kevin, a boy about her own age. With their guidance, Laura learns the day-to-day reality of survival in this cursed town. After a disastrous company picnic, Laura shares some thoughts with her new friend. "In Seattle I used to love to stand in the rain…but here it's all frogs and acid." To which Kevin replies, "Just frogs and acid?"
But the "why" of it all entices Laura to sleuthing, especially when she learns that people don't (that is, can't) leave. This means she won't see her father back in Seattle again unless she solves the mystery of Deluge.
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