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Drugs, sex, and rock n roll, those hallmarks of the summer of 1969, are all here, but theres so much more. But even the first hundred pages of this book were difficult. Mobydick on an alien planet having left the arid, chemicalladen, dying earth for a yearlong assignment, ishmael awakens from stasis already on the pequod, a ship in. The beast of cretacea todd strasser 9780763669010 netgalley. The beast of cretacea in adventures in ya publishing. About the beast of cretacea master storyteller todd strasser reimagines the classic tale of moby dick as set in the futureand takes readers on an epic scifi adventure. Master storyteller todd strasser reimagines the classic tale of moby dickas set in the futureand takes readers on an epic scifi adventure. Apr 21, 2016 2016 green earth book award winner for young adult fiction todd strasser the beast of cretacea. The beast of cretacea is a book about a seventeen year old boy named ishmael.
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