The Diary of Pelly D

The Diary of Pelly D alternates between the story of Toni V, who is part of a crew rebuilding the destroyed City Five, and Pelly D, who left behind a diary of her life before and during the war that destroyed it. Toni V finds Pelly D's diary buried in the ground and begins to read it.

I read this book having already read Cherry Heaven. I mostly decided to read this in order to understand what happened in this world before the events of Cherry Heaven. Knowing about the three genetic groups that everyone is assigned to one of, I could guess from the beginning that Pelly D would be placed into the lowest group.

I did think that this book provided a nice backstory for Cherry Heaven (even though I know this one is meant to be read first), show more which I think is better than this book. I found it interesting to see the better parts of Pelly D's character come out as her situation worsens, and I thought that Toni V's opinions on what was going on added something extra to the story.

I will admit that the story was fairly predictable from a certain point, but it was still a fine read. show less

A 13-year-old worker, Tony V., finds a diary while demolishing a war-damaged plaza in an established Earth colony of the future, and becomes engrossed in it. The diary was written by Pelly D., a popular and rich girl who finds herself caught up in terrible events - her society becomes divided into three arbitrary groups, determined by gene markers, and soon one group becomes society's scapegoat. Jobs are taken away, people are relocated, protests are violently squelched, people begin disappearing, and then finally all the members of this group are forcibly removed. Sound familiar? Tony is living in the aftermath of all this, and it makes him question his society for the first time. Very obvious, but chilling for all that - and Tony and show more Pelly's voices are both compelling. show less

The human race has left Earth in the ruin of wars and settled on another planet where war is supposed to be a thing of the past. This works well until resources become scarce, then people start to pay attention to the genetic heritage of residents, with some being preferred over others. A boy finds the diary of a girl whose life is turned upside down when she is discovered to have a particular gene.

In a colonial world of the future, Toni V. is a teenager working on a demolition crew. His job is to remove rubble from a city recently devastated by a war. In the rubble, he finds a plastic package. Inside the package is Pelly D's diary. She is just a normal teen girl: a little selfish, a little foolish, a little thoughtful. She has crushes on boys, she worries about her skin, she tries to ignore the hate that is building, even in her high school. People are deciding that certain strains of DNA are superior to others. As the winds of an imminent war between groups of people based on the superiority of their DNA swirl around her, Pelly tries to make sense of what's happening. And Toni begins to realize that his government has been lying show more to him.

Pelly D. will remind you of another remarkable young teen named Anne Frank. show less

A young man on a distant planet (colonised when the earth became too inhospitable,) discovers a diary while working on a road gang. The diary by Pelly D. has been written only a few years earlier, and within its pages it holds a terrible truth. A story of water shortages (people have gills in the future) and of determining a class of people by their genes.-everyone is marked on their wrist to show what genes they possess. Shades of Hitler & the holocaust – a book with a terrible twist at its end.

This book takes place at some point in the future (I never did quite figure out the numbering system) on another planet. The people (who have gills) were genetically produced from three different strands. After a war, Toni V is part of a work crew in charge of demolition. He finds a diary and learns about Pelly D, a vivacious girl who lived in the city as conditions deteriorated into war. All people were labeled according to their genetic lines and the G group were first moved to separate housing and then slowly "disappear".
The idea was promising, but the payoffs weren't as rich as they could have been. Toni is somehow changed by this...There are certainly strong parallels to the Holocaust in this futuristic story.

Toni V works on a demolition crew. Its hard work, but important, they're trying to make the polluted and bomb-torn world safe again. He's supposed to turn anything he finds--any artifacts--over to his supervisors, but one day, he finds a diary, and he just can't let it go. Toni secretly starts reading the diary of Pelly D, and he sees clues about what happened to the world, things that nobody ever talks about. At first, Pelly D seems like your average spoiled teenager, but then things begin to happen to her. Friends start disappearing. The government forces people to get DNA tests. Will Toni V find out the truth of what happened to Pelly D and what created the world he lives in today?