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A stage version, adapted by Mark Ravenhill, debuted in 2009.

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* [[Action Survivor]]: Everyone to some extent.

* [[Combat by Champion]]

* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Mrs. Gurgle (called so because Daphne can't pronounce her real name).

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Cookie

* [[Deliberately Cute Child]]: although it doesn't happen onscreen, it's hinted that Daphne is not above pulling this when she has to. There's an interesting flashback when, as a child, she corners a particularly-[[Jerkass]] cousin, tells him to stop his antics, and [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit|promptly bursts into tears when the adults arrive]]. (The narrative also notes that her family could never have survived as long as it did without a mean streak.)

'Huh, yes, ''six minutes'',' said the boy. }}

* [[Small Secluded World]]: the main character's world only includes a few islands since no one in his tribe ever sailed far enough to see the continent.

* [[Spirited Young Lady]]: Daphne.

* [[Soft Water]]: Averted, just in real life water can {{spoiler|stop bullets.}}

 

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[[Category:Alternate History Literature]]

[[Category:Young Adult Literature]]

[[Category:Carnegie Medal]]

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[[Category:Literature of the 2000s]]