The Dead-Tossed Waves (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Gabrielle "Gabry": Main character. Mary's daughter. She has been overly protected and is very timid and scared to break the rules. Lives in Vista in the lighthouse with her mother.
• Elias: A boy who never leaves Gabrielle alone, she starts to get feelings for him and soon finds out that he is the answer to her forgotten past.
• Catcher: Gabry's first love interest and Cira's brother.
• Mary: Gabry's mother. Keeps the lighthouse running and clears the Mudo from the beach at every tide. The main female character in book one.
• Cira: Gabry's best friend and Catcher's sister.
• Daniel: He is a boy in Vista. Wants to be in the Recruiters, but was turned down because of his leg. Joins the Militia for Vista.

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• “I wipe the tears from my face and push myself up to look at my mother. I feel as though she’s a stranger to me in so many ways. Seeing this village—seeing where she grew up, how she lived—makes me understand even more how little I know about her.”

  Gabry

• “..I remember him telling me that sometimes you can think you know someone and then they say something or do something and suddenly everything changes. You don't think of them the same way.”

  Gabry

• “I realize that life is risks. It's acknowledging the past but looking forward. It's taking a chance that we will make mistakes but believing that we all deserve to be forgiven.”

• “Sometimes it's those things you can't touch that you need to hold on to the most”

  Harry

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• That’s what I’ve started to learn about this world. It might give, but it always takes away.

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• “Life is life,” she says. She shrugs, looking up at me. “You choose to live it or you do not.”

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• And I realize that maybe this is the one thing that will always pull the people of my world together. The more we lose, the more we become the survivors.

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• I realize then that there’s a difference between the possibility of hope—the idea of things that we can never know—and the starkness of reality. The weight of knowledge.

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• “It means that if you never try to see them for who they are, then you don’t love them enough,” he says.

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• “You stay safe,” she finally says. “You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You push.” She smiles, her voice watery. “And you always remember that your mother loves you.”

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• “I think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things that were concrete, like the ocean. Something you could point to and know what it was. I think that’s why she always struggled with God. And I think that’s why she also struggled with love. She couldn’t touch it. She couldn’t hold on to it and make sure it never changed.”

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• “It’s never been a perfect world. It’s never going to be. It’s going to be hard and scary and, if you’re lucky, wonderful and awe-inspiring. But you have to push through the bad parts to get to the good.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Vista
• The Forest of Hands and Teeth
• Dark City

Organizations edit see section history

• Recruiters: A special-ops group of sorts. Usually takes volunteers but sometimes people are drafted.
• Militia: Protectors of Vista.
• Soulers: A cult that worships the dead.

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Glossary edit see section history

• Mudo: The Returned dead, the zombies

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Forest of Hands and Teeth, and followed by The Dark and Hollow Places.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Carrie Ryan (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PZ7.R9478 De 2010 FT MEADE
• Dewey: Fiction

Notes for Parents edit see section history

it has a fair amount of violence and blood

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Teens › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy
• Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction › Love & Romance
• Books › Teens › Social Issues
• Books › Teens › Horror

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Carrie Ryan: The author's site. Contains trailer to watch for book.

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