Even though I’m finally safe at my father’s colony, I’m still wired from all the nights I spent in the open ocean alert for predators. We don’t have to be up for another hour, but I know I won’t be able to fallĪsleep again. Impatiently, I brush the fish away and check my dive watch. Forcing my eyes open, I spot a persistent little yellowtail rockfish swimming in circles over my face.
The Neptune Project will attract male and female readers." - VOYA Read Excerpt
The relationship between the teenagers and the dolphins - who actually become characters themselves-is especially well crafted. "The book revels in the beauty of the underwater world and the creatures that inhabit it. this suspenseful, undersea dystopia should keep middle schoolers hooked." - Kirkus Reviews "Holyoke keeps her prose well-pitched to her audience. Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award nomineeīank Street Best Children's Books of the Year, 2014
With bloodthirsty shark mutates and savage kids roaming the corridors, will Nere and her companions find a way to save their friends, themselves, and their underwater world? The stakes couldn't be higher in this thrilling sequel to the award-winning The Neptune Project.Ģ016-2017 Sunshine State Young Readers Award winner Tasked with infiltrating the kidnapper's high-tech undersea base, Nere soon discovers that rescuing the missing Neptune kids isn't all there is to her mission: the secret to saving the world's oceans is hidden somewhere deep inside this vast fortress, and she and her friends will have to risk everything to find it. But plenty of enemies prowl just outside the colony's boundaries, and when two of the children are kidnapped, Nere, her loyal dolphins, and the other Neptune kids must set out on an expedition even more perilous than their first. Genetically engineered to survive in the ocean, Nere and her friends are recovering from their treacherous journey to Safety Harbor, an undersea refuge founded by the scientists of the Neptune Project.
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