My book report is over Michael Buckley’s Undertow. Lyric Walker is a 16 year old girl who just found out that there are new people in town. These people are of a new race called “the first men” or the “alphas”. The first men aren’t exactly what you would call the average person considering they are half human half fish. They have been living under the sea for hundereds of years until finally, they decide to march straight out of the sea into modern day Coney Island. Lyric Walker faces the next year of her life going to school with the new race. Michael Buckley is the author of Undertow. Buckley resides in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and son. Buckley was born in Ohio, where he graduated from Ohio State University in 1966. Before writing, he previously worked as a stand up comedian and a TV copywriter.
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Let alone trying to deal with the arrival of the Alpha teenagers. Lyric is forced to be friends with the crowned prince, Fathom, and teach him how to be a regular teenage boy and not a warrior from under the sea. The first day is the hardest, there are news crews lined up and down the streets leading to the high school. They are all waiting to see the new students. The new students look just like regular teenagers except for the fact that they have scales on
Let alone trying to deal with the arrival of the Alpha teenagers. Lyric is forced to be friends with the crowned prince, Fathom, and teach him how to be a regular teenage boy and not a warrior from under the sea. The first day is the hardest, there are news crews lined up and down the streets leading to the high school. They are all waiting to see the new students. The new students look just like regular teenagers except for the fact that they have scales on