Don't call me a Hurricane by Ellen HaganDon't Call Me a Hurricane is a moving YA novel that tells the story of Eliza, a girl who risks her life to reclaim her home from destruction by climate change. Inspired by teenage activists, as detailed in the author's note, Hagan (Watch Us Rise) writes an epic novel centered around the fictional story of the year-round locals of Long Beach Island, a real-life New Jersey beach community . The main character, Eliza, is suffering from trauma caused by the storm. The more she suffers from trauma, the more she does her best to protect the island she loves, the home of her life. However, as she has just entered her third year of high school, a natural disaster that humans cannot overcome, such as a hurricane, occurs and completely ruins her life. I can't shake the fear that it will be pulled out. Lifelong resident of Long Beach Island, New Jersey, Isa Marino's family lost almost everything in the devastating hurricane. “Sea level rise. Watching the way the earth is heating up. All the time. Loving something that could take away everything and everyone “I love.” The reason she suffers this trauma is because five years have passed since the hurricane that devastated their lives and Eliza, her family, and their village are still processing the aftermath. Eliza, in particular, still remembers her days of disaster and talks about how she feared she would lose her home, her family, and even her life. But she is determined to save first one of her own islands, Clam Cove Reserve, a wetland area that she will turn into her building site. She comes to the island to have fun and is disappointed by the tourists who destroy the environment and the adults who only focus on developing tourist destinations through gentrification. Making the situation even worse is the fact that Eliza's prized land is being bought up by her contractors and developed into a luxurious mansion for summer vacationers to live in. In fact, after parts of Hawaii's Maui Island, a famous tourist destination in the United States, suffered extensive damage from forest fires, authorities advised tourists to leave the island. However, thousands of people ignored the advice, and as people continued to visit the island even after the fire, anger grew among residents suffering from the forest fire. After the most destructive wildfire in modern American history, the surviving Maui people, like the novel's protagonist Eliza, are fighting to rebuild their home. But reality seems crueler than fiction. “One is Hawaii created for the convenience of tourists, and the other is Hawaii with a harsher face left behind for Hawaiian residents. “I remember the news that pointed out, Eliza struggles to protect her island from the harsh faces left behind as its inhabitants. Told in stunning verse, Don't Call Me a Hurricane is a love story for the place and people we come from, and a journey to preserve what we love most about home.
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