On a Clear Day

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By Walter Dean Myers

Publisher Description

"Visionary. This book should be in every reader's hands." –JACQUELINE WOODSON, National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming

Young heroes decide that they are not too young or too powerless to change their world in this gripping, futuristic young adult novel by the New York Times bestselling author of the Printz Award–winning Monster.

It is 2035. Teens, armed only with their ideals, must wage war on the power elite.

Dahlia is a Low Gater: a sheep in a storm, struggling to survive completely on her own. The Gaters live in closed safe communities, protected from the Sturmers, mercenary thugs. And the C-8, a consortium of giant companies, control global access to finance, media, food, water, and energy resources—and they are only getting bigger and even more cutthroat. Dahlia, a computer whiz, joins forces with an ex-rocker, an ex-con, a chess prodigy, an ex-athlete, and a soldier wannabe. Their goal: to sabotage the C-8. But how will Sayeed, warlord and terrorist, fit into the equation?

AWARDS FOR WALTER DEAN MYERS:
New York Times Bestselling Author
3-Time National Book Award Finalist
Michael L. Printz Award
5 Coretta Scott King Awards
2 Newbery Honors
National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature (2012-2013)
Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement
Children’s Literature Legacy Award

Praise for ON A CLEAR DAY:

“Walter Dean Myers was such a visionary. On a Clear Day is at once historical and futuristic, thoughtful and thought-provoking. It should be in every reader's hands. It's a book for anyone who has ever given thought to our own future and the futures of those coming behind us. Stunning.” –JACQUELINE WOODSON, National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming

*"A clarion call from a beloved, much-missed master." –Kirkus Reviews, Starred

"In his last book, Myers has turned his thoughtful attention to matters of pressing global importance and issued an implicit challenge to his teen readers to become involved and make a difference. It makes for a stirring valedictory." –Booklist

"Published posthumously, this is an angry story, demonstrating again Myers's acute social conscience." –Horn Book

"Worth serious YA consideration." –The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

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7 Reviews

2.0

Kendall Sutton

Created 4 months ago

nat.thomasson

Created over 3 years ago

Tabatha Tjaden

Created over 4 years ago

Whiteraven13

Created about 5 years ago

“Part of my "Reading the Lowest-Rated Books on my TBR List" Challenge Average rating as of writing this review: 2.50 The author of this book has won basically every Children's Lit award there is. This book is so bad that if I hadn't already known that, I'd never have believed it. In fact, considering this book came out right around when the author died, I can't help wondering if the publishing company hired a ghostwriter to finish it. There were a number of passages that didn't sound like they'd been written by an almost 80-year-old black man. At one point the Latina protagonist, Dahlia, says “We need to rethink this thing as if we’re playing with hard-nosed and damned intelligent professionals, not some brown-skinned cowboy out of North Africa!” That line felt out of place and weirdly racist. It would be one thing if the protagonist started out a racist and her character arc was about learning to overcome her prejudices. That's not what's happening, though. That quote is never criticized or even commented on. Another thing that stuck out was the girl-hate. Dahlia develops an instant hatred for one of the other girls in the group, Mei-Mei, for no reason that I can see. She constantly sneers at Mei-Mei for having negative facial expressions and kissing her boyfriend and any other number of perfectly normal behaviors. Another bit of pointless girl hate came in the form of the so-called "slut strips", which are basically portable wi-fi hotspots that people can stick on things. Some girls in the book put them on their lower backs like tramp stamps so of course Dahlia spends a whole page sneering at girls she sees wearing these things. The slut strips never become a plot point. They seem to have been invented purely as an excuse for slut-shaming. It feels like the sort of thing you'd see in an early-2000s Twilight clone, not a book by an award-winning author. Even with all of those things, however, the book might have been salvageable if it had a good plot. Sadly, there was no plot. The characters spent almost the entire book meeting with people, getting information, and then talking about how they should do something with that information. Rinse and repeat for ~200 pages. At the last minute, the author remembered that books are supposed to have a climax, so he threw in a gunfight with a terrorist. The protagonists win, so happy ending I guess? All in all, this was a complete mess of a book that fully deserves its low rating.”

WiltedFlowers

Created about 5 years ago

About Walter Dean Myers

1937–2014
Walter Dean Myers’s fiction and nonfiction books have reached millions of young people. A prolific author of more than one hundred titles, he received every major award in the field of children’s literature. He wrote two Newbery Honor Books, eleven Coretta Scott King Award winners, three National Book Award finalists, and the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. He also received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults and was the first recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was a 2010 United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award and was nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Award numerous times. From 2012 to 2013, he served as the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature with the platform “Reading is not optional.” In his most-beloved books, Walter explored the themes of taking responsibility for your life and that everyone always gets a second chance.