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Bren MacDibble
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…
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A story about family, loyalty, kindness and bravery, set against an all-too-possible future where climate change has forever changed the way we live.
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Ella and her brother Emery are alone in a city that’s starving to death. If they are going to survive, they must get away, upcountry, to find Emery’s mum. But…
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Bastienne Scull is nearly twelve years old and lives a simple life as an apprentice to the Witnesser of Miracles in a small village mostly populated by women and girls…
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'We're gonna starve if we stay here,' Emery said. 'If we're gonna go, best go now.' And he said it like going was something easy. Like all we have to…
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Zana Fraillon, Bren MacDibble (illus.)
A wonderful children’s novel by two stellar writers featuring Shelby and Phoenix, living 100 years apart yet unexpectedly joined across time - and each make the discovery of a lifetime…
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In a climate changed world, this adventure with sinkholes, crocodiles, sharks, pirates, floating cities, vertical farms and a mystery to solve poses the question of how we will all live…
Bren Macdibble
How to Bee is a beautiful, fierce and ultimately hopeful dystopian novel, set against an all-too-possible future where the bees are extinct and it is up to the quickest and…
In a world without bees, 9 year-old Peony wants to be the best ‘bee’ the farm has ever seen. But her mother wants her to live in the city. Torn…
Trapped in a starving city, Ella and Emery must escape upcountry, to find Emery’s mum. They harness up their dogsled and set off on a terrifying journey across a barren…
Zana Fraillon and Bren MacDibble
A wonderful children's novel by two stellar writers featuring Shelby and Phoenix, living 100 years apart yet unexpectedly joined across time - and each make the discovery of a lifetime…
Bren MacDibble,Zana Fraillon
Bren MacDibble, Zana Fraillon
A powerful dual-voice dystopian adventure from two of Australia's finest contemporary authors, combining their passions for mythology and ecology and showing how a sustainable world might be forged from chaos.
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Zana Fraillon, Bren MacDibble
'This is how we have to live now.'
Shelby and her best friend Davy live quiet low-tech lives in a closed community that is made up of exactly 350 kind…
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