Format: paperback book
Citation: Strasser, Todd. The beast of Cretacea, New York: Candlewick Press, 2015.
Grade level: 6 – 12
Annotation: A modern re-telling of Moby Dick with a sci-fi slant, ‘The beast of Cretacea’ is both a cautionary environmental novel as well as a coming-of-age story. A young Ishmael leaves an Earth on the verge of ruin and finds himself harvesting resources for Mad Captain Ahab, a man who has a crazed obsession to kill a great sea creature, the Great Terrafin. As Ishmael’s journey continues, he finds out the real reason for the destruction of Earth’s ecology. Filled with futuristic technology, a courageous protagonist and a masterfully crafted world, ‘the beast of Cretacea’ is a contemporary novel with echoes of an old-maritime adventure.
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