Following 'How to Bee' and 'The Dog Runner', this is the third dystopian middle-grade environmental adventure from multi award-winning Australian author Bren MacDibble,
Neoma and Jag and their small community are 'living gentle lives' on high ground surrounded by the risen sea. When strangers from the Valley of the Sun arrive unannounced, the two friends find themselves drawn into a web of secrecy and lies that endangers their whole way of life. 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.
In a post climate change world, this adventure with sinkholes, farms and a mystery to solve poses the question of how we will all live 'afterwards.' Will kindness and a sense of community win over selfish greed to preserve our planet - and humanity?
Genre: Children's Fiction
Neoma and Jag and their small community are 'living gentle lives' on high ground surrounded by the risen sea. When strangers from the Valley of the Sun arrive unannounced, the two friends find themselves drawn into a web of secrecy and lies that endangers their whole way of life. 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.
In a post climate change world, this adventure with sinkholes, farms and a mystery to solve poses the question of how we will all live 'afterwards.' Will kindness and a sense of community win over selfish greed to preserve our planet - and humanity?
Genre: Children's Fiction
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