THE DOG RUNNER

From the author of the multi-award-winning and bestselling How To Bee comes another intense adventure complete with the author's revered original voice and a strong female protagonist.

'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 do is walk away. 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 how can two kids travel such big distances across a barren, dangerous landscape? Well, when you've got five big doggos and a dry-land dogsled, the answer is you go mushing. But when Emery is injured, Ella must find a way to navigate them through rough terrain, and even rougher encounters with desperate people... Set in intensely believable not-so-distant future in which climate change and vegetation pathogens have created a dry harsh landscape devoid of growth, green and food, THE DOG RUNNER is a thrilling adventure for middle grade readers. Bren MacDibble was raised on farms all over New Zealand, so is an expert about being a kid on the land. Bren lives and works in a bus travelling around Australia. She teaches TAFE online, and writes all the other hours her eyes can stay open. HOW TO BEE, her first novel for younger readers, won the 2018 CBCA Book of the Year Awards, The NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, and the NSW Premiers Literary Awards, and was shortlisted for several others.