Across the Risen Sea
Published on 4. August 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-76052-605-4 (ISBN)
Description
Across the Risen Sea is an action-packed, compelling and heartfelt middle-fiction adventure, set in a post-climate change landscape, from the multi-award winning author of How to Bee. Neoma and Jag and their small community are 'living gentle lives' on high ground surrounded by the risen sea that has caused widespread devastation. When strangers from the Valley of the Sun arrive unannounced, the friends find themselves drawn into a web of secrecy and lies that endangers the way of life of their entire community. Soon daring, loyal Neoma must set off on a solo mission across the risen sea, determined to rescue her best friend and find the truth that will save her village. Across the Risen Sea is another thrilling adventure for young readers from the author of How to Bee.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Australia
Publishing group
A&U Children's
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 9 to 13 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-76052-605-4 (9781760526054)
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Bren MacDibble was raised on farms all over New Zealand, so is an expert about being a kid on the land. After 20 years in Melbourne, Bren sold everything, and spent two years living and working in a bus traveling around Australia. In 2018, How to Bee - her first novel for younger readers - won the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers, the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Children's Literature, and the Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction. In 2019 The Dog Runner won the New Zealand Book Awards Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction.