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    Wall of Water
    Wall of Water
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    Wall of Water

    By Kristin Johnson

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    When Alexandra's dad gets a new job in Hawaii, her parents promise that life there will be paradise. But what they couldn't predict is a natural disaster of epic proportions. A tsunami slams into their new island home, quickly turning paradise into a living nightmare. Can Alexandra survive the flood? And even if she does, will everything she loves be swept away?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLerner Publishing
    Release dateJan 1, 2017
    ISBN9781512435160
    Wall of Water
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    Kristin Johnson

    Kristin Johnson lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her family and their dog and teaches writing at a local college. She spent two years as a media specialist and children's librarian in Minneapolis Public Schools.

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      Wall of Water - Kristin Johnson

      Copyright © 2017 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

      All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review.

      Darby Creek

      A division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

      241 First Avenue North

      Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA

      For reading levels and more information, look up this title at www.lernerbooks.com.

      Front cover: © Nalukai/Paul Topp/Dreamstime.com, (wave); © iStockphoto.com/Marina Mariya (swirl).

      Images in this book used with the permission of: © Nalukai/Paul Topp/Dreamstime.com, (wave); © iStockphoto.com/Marina Mariya (swirl).

      Main body text set in Janson Text LT Std 12/17.5. Typeface provided by Adobe Systems.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Johnson, Kristin F., 1968- author.

      Title: Wall of water / Kristin F. Johnson.

      Description: Minneapolis : Darby Creek, [2017] | Series: Day of disaster | Summary: After a devastating earthquake, a teen and her family are threatened by yet another disaster. A tsunami destroys their house. Their life in paradise is shaken as they try to survive the next blow— Provided by publisher.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016023632 (print) | LCCN 2016034209 (ebook) | ISBN 9781512427783 (lb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781512430967 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781512427868 (eb pdf)

      Subjects: | CYAC: Tsunamis—Fiction. | Earthquakes—Fiction. | Survival—Fiction. | Families—Fiction. | Hawaii—Fiction. | Filipino Americans—Fiction. | Racially mixed people—Fiction.

      Classification: LCC PZ7.1.J624 Wal 2017 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.J624 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016023632

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      1-41503-23364-8/3/2016

      9781512435153 ePub

      9781512435160 ePub

      9781512435177 mobi

      For my niece, Katy V.

      1

      The day of the disaster dawned the same as every other day in Hawaii: perfect. That’s what Alexandra’s dad had called it when he told her that they would be moving there. Perfect temps, perfect beaches, and perfect weather. A perfect paradise.

      But perfect Hawaii didn’t have Alex’s school, her friends, or her home. Spending her senior year of high school there also meant Alex wouldn’t get to graduate with her class. Instead, she would be going to school on Oahu, Hawaii’s third-biggest island, with a bunch of strangers. But Alex had no say in the matter, so now here she was with her family in paradise.

      Alex sifted sand between her toes.

      Would you look at that view? Dad said.

      Alex glanced over at him, but said nothing. Her digging toes caught a strand of seaweed left by the tide as it rolled out into the Pacific Ocean. Alex and her family had walked down to the beach to watch the sunrise, their new routine before Mom and Dad headed off to work each day.

      Have a bagel, Alex, her mom said. She spread cream cheese on a bluish roll and walked it over, adding, You like blueberry, right?

      Yeah. Thanks. Alex took the bagel and bit into it.

      Mom sat down again on her towel, facing the sunrise, and sipped coffee from a mug with Aloha written across it in big, cursive letters.

      Can I have some coffee? Alex asked.

      Nice try, her mom said. You don’t need all that caffeine. You can have some orange juice.

      Yuck. Alex took another generous bite of the bagel.

      Alex! Drew yelled. Come over here!

      Her younger brother was running along the beach, playing tag with the tiny waves that crawled inland.

      Alex ignored him and pulled the phone out of her back pocket. She texted Simone, her best friend back home in Minnesota, with one hand as she finished the bagel in her other hand. Simone and Alex both had the day off, and Alex hoped they could talk later.

      ALEX: Hey!

      Waiting. Waiting. Waiting.

      SIMONE: Hey.

      ALEX: What’s up?

      Waiting. Waiting. Waiting.

      SIMONE: No school! Going 2 movies w/Chase!!! You?

      ALEX: Beach. Perfect weather here.

      SIMONE: He’s here! Gotta go :-)

      A pang of jealousy struck Alex as if she had been punched in the stomach. Chase was a guy they both liked. She closed the text window and shoved the phone back into her pocket. She had only been gone from Minnesota for a month and Simone already had a boyfriend. Alex felt like she had hardly met anyone.

      Well, that wasn’t exactly true. She

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