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The Tear Collector

The Tear Collector

Romero, R. M.

Hardcover

General Juvenile FictionScience & Nature

Publisher Price: $17.99

ISBN10: 0316578045
ISBN13: 9780316578042
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: Oct 14 2025
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.87
Height: 1.18 Width: 5.45 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Set after the end of the world, this darkly fantastical climate change tale explores hope, memory, and what really makes a monster.

After an enormous wave wiped out entire countries, Malka and her younger brother Ezra now live with Dr. Jonas Hollman on the Island, the only piece of land left on Earth. Scavenging useful things from the shoreline under the watchful eye of the Island's sinister leader Mr. Gray, Malka and her family get by. Barely.

But an illness called the Sorrow is changing people into monsters when their memories of the Mainland grow too sad...and Ezra is the latest to get sick. Desperate not to lose her brother, Malka throws herself into helping Uncle Jonas with his research to find a cure. When a mysterious stranger crash lands on their island, the family faces the realization that there are other survivors out there. Perhaps the world isn't lost forever.

To save Ezra and the other Islanders, Malka will have to uncover the secrets of her flooded world--and the lies even the people she loves have told her.

R.M. Romero tackles our fear and anxiety surrounding climate change and weaves it through with hope in this beautifully told adventure that will resonate with readers young and old.

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