*-The asterisk highlights exceptional books. Lewis knew that tragic events like this could change people mentally and physically. The author wanted to show that even the most stubborn minds change through friendship and survival. Help librarians and teachers working in high schools where there are Richard Lewis wrote about a terrible earthquake that happened which caused an even worse tsunami. S-Recommended for senior high school students.Ī-Recommended for advanced students and adults. Particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. J-Recommended for junior high school students. We see as 'different.' Samantha Musher, Lib. It has made a strong point about the blindness of the West to those who

Terrifying adventure story a touching story of a friendship and aīeautifully drawn picture of another part of the world. Government, which existed long before the tsunami, but with which few of Political tensions between Aceh separatist rebels and the Indonesian Is quite successful at presenting Indonesian culture-especially the

Lewis, who was raised in Bali as the son of American missionaries, They agree to help each other, and grow to care deeply for one another Searches for a doctor for feverish Peter.

Ruslan travels through Aceh Province to find his father and Sarah Prompt: Sarah, one of the main characters in Richard Lewis The Killing Sea, experiences a terrible misfortune when she loses her parents while vacationing in. Two teens find each other surrounded by the destruction left in the wake of the. Teens' stories are told separately in alternating chapters, as The Killing SeaAuthor(s): Richard Lewis Aceh, Indonesia. When the 2004 tsunami hits,īoth are separated from their families: Ruslan's father has gone toĪnother town for work, and Sarah and her brother Peter are separatedįrom their parents when their father is injured and their mother killedĪttempting to escape the wave. Ruslan is the teenaged son of an Indonesian mechanic, whose father hasĬonveniently required that he learn English. Sarah is an American teenager vacationing with her family in Indonesia. To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, November 2006:

The killing sea by richard lewis