Saving Celeste

LoveReading4Kids Says

Originally published in France in 2009, this first publication in England could not be timelier as world leaders meet at COP26 and the crisis presciently foreseen in 2009 is all too visibly present.

Set in a dystopian future where society is run by and for industrial giants, people live in overcrowded and polluted cities stacked vertically miles into the sky. Narrated by a lonely fourteen-year-old boy, remotely parented by his high-flying executive mother, who meets the mysterious Celeste on her first and last day at his school. Despite vowing never to fall in love, he becomes obsessed by her and tracks her down to her home on the 330th floor of tower 330. She has become very ill with mysterious markings on her face and body. He tricks his mother into sending the doctor her family could never afford but comes to realise that he has allowed the corporations to take her at the same time as he realises that her body is mirroring the sickness of the Earth itself- a message ‘they’ want to hide at all costs. Is it too late to save her and the Earth?

This short and beautifully written tale would be the perfect class read at this time and would give children an empowering message about not losing hope.

Joy Court

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