|   First edition | |
| Author | Marcus Sedgwick | 
|---|---|
| Language | English | 
| Genre | Children's Fantasy novel | 
| Publisher | Dolphin Paperback | 
| Publication date | 2 Mar 2000 | 
| Publication place | United Kingdom | 
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) | 
| Pages | 128 pp (first edition, paperback) | 
| ISBN | 1-85881-763-3 | 
| OCLC | 41960153 | 
Floodland is a children's fantasy novel by Marcus Sedgwick, published on 2 March 2000 by Orion Children's Books. Floodland won the Branford Boase Award in 2001 for an outstanding first published novel. [1]
Floodland is set in the near future where most of the United Kingdom is covered by water. A girl named Zoe is left alone by her parents in the ruins of Norwich, which has become an island where food and water are becoming increasingly scarce. [2] She escapes to Eels Island (Ely Cathedral) where she discovers a sinister society run by a strange boy named Dooby. [3] Will she ever find her parents?