The Carbon Diaries of 2015

The Carbon Diaries of 2015 by Saci Lloyd

As most of you know, I enjoy a good dystopian future book and well here's another to add to my list of favourites.

The year 2015 should have been a great year for 16-year-old Laura Brown, instead it's a year of chaos, confusion, rationing, and turmoil - and most of that has been forced upon her because the government has imposed carbon rationing.

Global warming is not just something scientists debate anymore, it's real, it's here and now, the evidence is in the winter storms that rage unlike anything ever seen before, followed by droughts that only people from the Sararah are ready for. So when the UK implements carbon rationing, each person is given a card with 200 points, use more than 200 and sorry your cut off and will have to go to carbon offenders school. So forget straightening your hair, forget even blow drying it, forget learning to drive - better find a bike, no more air-travel, and remember all those yummy things you used to devour without much thought - coffee, bananas, chocolate, good riddance.

Laura documents these tradegies as well as her family falling apart, her grades going down the toilet, her band the dirty angels finally getting some gigs, and an almost romance with cute guy down the street.

I thought it was great and it will getting strong recommendations from me.