Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

We are feeling much better!  That was a NASTY bug!

I know I totally failed at Book a Day January, but this is book 20 for the month.

AND I HATED IT.

This was recommended as an independent reading book for an advanced science course and requested to be put on my most recent district order.  I don't want call my colleague out, but my goodness this was awful.

I think the premise is great, and that's why I wanted to read this.  A young woman studying the nearly extinct Artic tern (bird) wants to follow their migration pattern.  Franny finagles her way onto a fishing vessel and heads south, finding herself on the way.  Sounds good. A little nature, a little conservation, a little female in a male-dominated science. 

Nowhere in the description does this say it's somewhere in the future.  ALL animals are nearly extinct in this dystopian world.  Those who fish and hunt are vilified.  Franny's descriptions of men and those of other skin colors are disparaging.  We learn Franny is a liar who thinks only about herself with little care whom she hurts on her "quest".  

I seriously wanted to throw this by 30 pages in.  

I look forward to proofreading the written examination by the student who chose this as her reading book, but if I know anything about her, she will be brutally honest about this character, novel, and author!

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