A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, A Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out PB_Gift_Guide National Book Award finalist Allegra

National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman has dazzled readers with her acclaimed works of fiction

England rose to become the most powerful nation in the world and the operations room of an empire spanning a quarter of the world’s land surface

who roams away from his familial pack in northeastern Oregon

So begins Upstream

with a wryly comic fable about the triumph of benevolence

A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, A Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out PB_Gift_Guide National Book Award finalist AllegraThe true story of how a massive catastrophic eruption plunged the world into darkness, altering the global climate and inspiring the likes of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from the award winning author of The Mona Lisa Vanishes and featuring black and white illustrations throughout. "A tour de force for our times . . . At once a heart stopping tale of climate change and a profoundly hopeful call to action." Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal winner for