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Subject: I Need the Text for a Fourth Children's Book
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Books and Literature
Asked by: socr2-ga
List Price: $20.00
Posted: 04 Oct 2003 01:28 PDT
Expires: 15 Oct 2003 09:45 PDT
Question ID: 262658
I need the text for a book for the Christmas present for eldest of my
nieces who is close to 12 years old and an avid reader.  The ideas I
have for this book are very sketchy.  The length of the text should
run to between 25-50 double spaced pages Times New Roman 12 point
characters.  I will add an additional a 10-15 full-page illustrations.
 Although this book is meant for only printing once, if I am impressed
with the results I may self publish copies and sell it a Website with
perhaps customization.  Since my ideas are so sketchy here, I will
grant 80% of the profits to the Google answerer or commenters if I
decide to use their ideas.

The story should take place sometime in the future and on the Northern
West Coast i.e. Oregon or Washington.  This is a post apocalyptic
novel.  The apocalypse is a nuclear winter followed by a virus that
has wiped out all men leaving just women and it kills all women above
50.  The novel will follow one teenage girl, and her teenage sister
and their mother.

The town all three live in survives buying and selling goods to
refugees coming south from evergrowing glaciers up north.  Lawlessness
has taken over the world.  The mother is a genius biologist (the
mother of the niece for whom I’m writing the book is PhD geneticist)
who is working by herself on the three problems that exist, finding a
cure or inoculation for the virus, producing babies without men (male
babies also die in the womb), and finding ways to prevent women from
dieing before age 50.  She is 39 and shows no symptoms of the virus
but begins to alarmingly show very early symptoms as the story
progresses.

To complicate all these matter, the mother is abducted by a group of
Swedish women who plan to take her back to Sweden to benefit from her
Biology work.  The book should follow the travels of the two sisters
as they heroically trail the Swedes back to Sweden and get their
mother back.  They should have all sorts of adventures and should
travel by skis, snowmobiles, and ice sailboats (across the Atlantic). 
They should periodically encounter the glaciers and see the effect
they have on cities, and other landmarks.  The Atlantic should be at
least partially frozen as they chase the Swedes across it, but there
should be a scene or two about open water, icebergs and how they adapt
their ice sailboats.

The girls should be very resourceful and creative and almost recapture
their mother several times.  They should have run-ins with deranged
person, packs of wild dogs, rejuvenated packs of wild wolves, and
bears aplenty.  There should be a lot of cold winds, blizzards and
freezing rain.  They should take a short cut across say lake Erie. 
They can always track where their mother is because in some years
before the apocalypse all citizens of the earth had microchips
injected in them and their mother had taught them how to use the
transponder locater GPS system.  They don’t have the microchips
themselves because they were born after the nuclear Winter set in but
before the virus took hold and killed their father.  The locater
should always be running low on juice, and they must constantly search
the special Lithium batteries or find generators to charge up the
locator.  There is no electricity service left in the world.  This
turns out to be the biggest problem they have.  They always have to
find a Radio Shack that has not been completely ransacked or find a
generator with gas to juice up the batteries.  They do have the
adaptor.  Gas is hard to find and they have to be resourceful to find
it.

Once they follow the Swedes across the Atlantic after almost getting
their mother several times, they should be some kind of climactic
scene in Sweden.  Perhaps a small battle will take place but no one
should be killed.  The two children should be captured and reunited
with their mother.  The story should be made out that the Swedish
women were inspired to do what they did by a deranged former colleague
and close biologist friend of hers.  The virus is causing this
colleague to get deranged but from the conversations she has with the
mother, the mother knows she has some good ideas on solving the three
aforementioned problems.  The mother secretly tells the children to
escape and find some psychiatric drugs that can help the dieing
colleague to think more clearly.  They should escape and find the
drugs somehow even though they can’t read Swedish.

They bring the drugs back and the colleague can now think clearly but
she is still physically dieing.  The mother and her are now racing
against the clock to solve the three Biology problems, but they
concentrate on the rapid ageing part.  They finally are successful,
but the colleague dies anyway because she is too far gone.  This
should end the first part of a series of three books with the next two
to be given at successive Christmases.  The mother will solve the
other two Biology problems in the successive books.
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