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Anya and the Light Above the Ocean \u2013 at a glance<\/h2>\n

The School Reading Lists\u2019 five word review<\/strong>: Found family, betrayal, trust, determination.
Children\u2019s book title<\/strong>: Anya and the Light Above the Ocean.
Children\u2019s author<\/strong>: Amelia Giudici.
Genre<\/strong>: Children\u2019s fiction.
Published by<\/strong>: Andersen Press<\/a>.
ISBN<\/strong>: 9781839136474.
Recommended for children aged<\/strong>: 10-12.
First published<\/strong>: Paperback February 2026.
This children\u2019s book is ideal for:<\/strong> Introducing science fiction to 10-12-year-olds, especially futuristic ideas and the positive and negative results that could result from them.<\/p>\n\n

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Our review:<\/h3>\n

Anya\u2019s mum is a scientist who works for Janus, a large and secretive organisation. When she disappears one night, Anya goes to look for her, but instead finds a bright white light over the ocean, which she touches, and then everything changes! Sent to live with a couple she doesn\u2019t know, all Anya wants is to find her mum, but instead she is forbidden to leave the house, not even to just sit in the garden!<\/p>\n

Anya\u2019s mum is a scientist who works for Janus, a large and secretive organisation. When she disappears one night, Anya goes to look for her, but instead finds a bright white light over the ocean, which she touches, and then everything changes! After spending time in hospital, she returns home, still weak but glad to be with her mum\u2019s best friend, Imani.<\/p>\n

Confused? Actually, you shouldn\u2019t be, the two stories work well together and the different points of view give the story a unique feel. Gradually, the storylines merge, but with Anya\u2019s mum still missing, her boss desperate to keep his organisation secret, and no one sure who they can trust, one thing is certain: the danger is still increasing.<\/p>\n

Our verdict:<\/h3>\n

Anya and the Light Above the Ocean<\/em> is a cleverly worked story which could have been complicated or confusing but actually isn\u2019t. The two Anyas are both written in the first person but as their lives are, to begin with, totally different the reader should be completely engrossed by the time the storylines merge.<\/p>\n

In many ways it is the adults who are pivotal to this story. Imani, who is looking after one girl, is the catalyst for changes which see the storylines move closer together. The scientific part of this is, hopefully, fiction with very little fact involved! It is, however, written in such a way that it seems quite plausible, to the scientists at least, and the morals of what they are doing are viewed in quite different ways by each of the main adult characters.<\/p>\n

A gentle introduction to middle-grade science fiction, Anya and the Light Above the Ocean<\/em> still asks some interesting questions and is definitely written in such a way as to make you think about the morality of such experiments.<\/p>\n

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