Dark Life
AuthorKat Falls
CountryUnited States
LanguageAmerican English
GenreScience fiction, post-apocalypse, adventure fiction
PublisherScholastic[1]
Publication date
May 1, 2010
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages304
ISBN0545178150
Followed byRip Tide 

Dark Life is the first book in a futuristic adventure fiction and science fiction [2] series of the same name by Kat Falls.[3] The novel was published May 1, 2010 by Scholastic.[4] Falls has written a sequel: Rip Tide.[5] Scholastic has published a study guide for the books.

Publishing rights outside the USA were sold in six languages.[6]

Plot summary

The world has been plunged underwater leaving very little land left above water. A teenage boy, Ty, has spent his entire life underwater helping his family farm their sea homestead.[7] Ty meets a teenage girl, Gemma, from the land, who is looking for her brother. A group of sea bandits known as the "Seablite Gang" attacks Ty's homestead and he and Gemma try to capture the bandits.[8] However, a member of the gang, Shade, turns out to be Gemma's brother. It also turns out that Shade, like Ty, has a "dark gift" that allows him to change his appearance, however Ty's dark gift is that he is able to use echo-location similar to a bat.[9][10]

Awards

Dark Life was nominated for the following awards.[11]

  • Sunshine State Young Reader Award (2011)
  • Children's Book Award (2011)
  • Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (2011)
  • Maud Hart Lovelace Award (2011)
  • Truman Reader's Award (2011)
  • Golden Sower Award (2011)
  • Buckeye Children's Book Award (2011)[12]
  • Junior Book Award (2011)
  • Beehive Book Award (2011)
  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (2011)

Film adaptation

On April 5, 2010, Robert Zemeckis was set to direct the film adaptation for Disney and will co-produce with Gotham Group through ImageMovers.[13]

References

  1. ↑ "Dark Life". Publishers Weekly.
  2. ↑ "DARK LIFE". Kirkus Reviews. Aug. 1st, 2011
  3. ↑ "Review: Dark Life". The Bookette.
  4. ↑ "Dark Life". Story Snoops.
  5. ↑ "RIP TIDE". Kirkus Reviews
  6. ↑ "Gotham Group options ‘Dark Life’. Variety, Tatiana Siegel January 25, 2010
  7. ↑ "Interview: June 2010". KidsReads,
  8. ↑ "Feed the Hunger". Orion Magazine, By David Sobel, 2012
  9. ↑ "Dark Life". Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Reviews. Marya Jansen-Gruber
  10. ↑ "Book Review: Dark Life by Kat Falls". Amazing Stories, Sam McDonald, February 2, 2016
  11. ↑ "Palos 118 students explore "Dark Life" with author Kat Falls". Palos Patch, February 7, 2013
  12. ↑ "2012 6-8 Nominations" Archived 2012-06-13 at the Wayback Machine. Buckeye Book Award.
  13. ↑ Graser, Marc (April 5, 2010). "Disney, Zemeckis enter 'Dark Life'". Variety.
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