Summary
The book Undertow, which was written by Michael Buckley, is a science fiction novel that takes place in the present day. Lyric Walker's life changed forever when the Alpha arrived on the shores of her hometown. The small town where Lyric and her family live in was quarantined from the rest of the world when 30,000 of the fish like species turned up on the shores of Coney Island. Lyric is the daughter of a police officer, Leonard, and one of the Alpha themselves, Summer, a Daughter of Sirena. Summer was one of the original 20 sent to the shores to scout the land. Now, the Walkers are one of two Alpha families remaining due to the fact that other families were taken away by the government. Three years after the Alpha arrived, the government allowed them to go to school in the same one as Lyric and her best friend Bex. Majority of the people that live in The Zone are against this and threaten to kill the six Alpha kids that were allowed to go to school and have riots every day to protest against this. This group is known as the Niners, and the governor of New York is the leader of this group. Later on, the principal of the school, Doyle, pairs Lyric with the Alpha prince, so she can try to change the Alpha in exchange for their family being allowed to escape The Zone. However, this plan does not go all the way through. Once the Walker family is allowed to leave, they cannot because of a war that is about to occur between the U.S. military and the Alpha. The government has kidnapped one of the six Alpha kids that were in the school because she killed a girl that was bullying her. The Walkers joined in with the Alpha because Lyric is half-Alpha, and her mother is an Alpha. Lyric also want to try to protect Fathom, the Alpha prince because she has developed a crush on him. They helped to defend the Alpha against the U.S. and another opposing threat known as the Rusalka. These Rusalka have killed millions of the Alpha race, and they are looking to finish the job on the remainder of the species. Read the book to find out what happens.
Buckley, Michael. Undertow. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. Print.
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