On a Clear Day, Walter Dean Myers
On a Clear Day, Walter Dean Myers
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On a Clear Day

Author: Walter Dean Myers

Narrator: Rebecca Soler

Unabridged: 6 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/23/2014


Synopsis

"Visionary. This book should be in every reader's hands." –JACQUELINE WOODSON, National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming

Young heroes decide that they are not too young or too powerless to change their world in this gripping, futuristic young adult novel by the New York Times bestselling author of the Printz Award–winning Monster.
 
It is 2035. Teens, armed only with their ideals, must wage war on the power elite.
 
Dahlia is a Low Gater: a sheep in a storm, struggling to survive completely on her own. The Gaters live in closed safe communities, protected from the Sturmers, mercenary thugs. And the C-8, a consortium of giant companies, control global access to finance, media, food, water, and energy resources—and they are only getting bigger and even more cutthroat. Dahlia, a computer whiz, joins forces with an ex-rocker, an ex-con, a chess prodigy, an ex-athlete, and a soldier wannabe. Their goal: to sabotage the C-8. But how will Sayeed, warlord and terrorist, fit into the equation?
 
AWARDS FOR WALTER DEAN MYERS:
New York Times Bestselling Author
3-Time National Book Award Finalist
Michael L. Printz Award
5 Coretta Scott King Awards
2 Newbery Honors
National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature (2012-2013)
Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement
Children’s Literature Legacy Award

Praise for ON A CLEAR DAY:

“Walter Dean Myers was such a visionary. On a Clear Day is at once historical and futuristic, thoughtful and thought-provoking. It should be in every reader's hands. It's a book for anyone who has ever given thought to our own future and the futures of those coming behind us. Stunning.” –JACQUELINE WOODSON, National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming

*"A clarion call from a beloved, much-missed master." –Kirkus Reviews, Starred 

"In his last book, Myers has turned his thoughtful attention to matters of pressing global importance and issued an implicit challenge to his teen readers to become involved and make a difference. It makes for a stirring valedictory." –Booklist 

"Published posthumously, this is an angry story, demonstrating again Myers's acute social conscience." –Horn Book 

"Worth serious YA consideration." –The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

About The Author

Walter Dean Myers is the New York Times bestselling author of the first Michael L. Printz Award winner, Monster, and served as the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature from 2012 to 2013. He is also the author of 145th Street and Hoops. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, with his family. You can visit Walter online at walterdeanmyers.net.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on September 07, 2015

DNF at 20%. Walter Dean Myers's last completed* YA novel before he passed away at age 76. Ambitious dystopian scope with too-large ensemble of same-ish rogue characters, all with several pages of biographical details combined with next-to-no actual characterization. Does it seem like I read the whol......more

Goodreads review by Raina on December 20, 2014

I REALLY wanted this to be good. But I started reading-with-reluctance when I got to the following line on page 104: "It was guy stuff, but it sounded good." srsly. Myers was a lovely person, and an amazing advocate for teens and reading. I REALLY wanted to like this book. But the main character is supp......more

Goodreads review by Sue on March 05, 2015

Dahlia has always loved math — the numbers and formulas are dependable and help her understand the world even as things fall apart. The year is 2035. The C-8, eight huge businesses, control everything from food to health care. Not only do they control who has access to what, the profit margin for the......more

Goodreads review by Miriam on June 13, 2014

Myers' motley crew of teens takes on the capitalist corporations in this fast-paced novel set in the not-terribly-distant future. You can feel Myers' own anger at the inequalities destroying the fabric of civil society and his hope that young people can overcome inertia and despair to fight against......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on January 27, 2019

I thought I would have liked this a lot more than I actually did with how good the description was: all in all, a disappointment but a quick read.......more


Quotes

Kirkus Reviews starred review, August 15, 2014:
“Readers are left to question what actions are possible, what actions are needed and what actions are right in a world where inaction is an impossibility. A clarion call from a beloved, much-missed master.”