I’ve been trying to buy the books I loved as a child and I can’t figure out the title and/or author to this one book. I believe it was printed sometime during the 1970s, but not sure. Please help.
Brief summary: The world is overheating and a teen girl goes to find her brother who is in the space program. She manages to get on the spaceship that holds the people that will repopulate whatever planet they land on. She fights constantly with the commander and starts a mutiny, but then falls in love with him after he nurses her back to health while she’s locked in the ship’s jail cell. They end up landing back on Earth.
My sixth grade teacher read us a science fiction book that I am dying to find, but I can’t remember the title or author. I only remember a few details, but maybe some one could help me out. The people find a man washed up on the beach, but he isn’t like us, he is kind of like a sea person/merman. They study him and then follow him back into the ocean, where his city is (Atlantis?) I wish I could remember more. Oh well! Any help?
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