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Across the Risen Sea
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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.
'It's one of them days when everything is off. A hot sweaty night in Rusty Bus means we kids is all grouchy-tired. Me and my best friend, Jaguar, is trying to cool down by taking turns at dipping in the sea pool. Him standing on the sea wall made from car frames and rocks on lookout for crocs, me swimming, then we'll swap places. We's always doing things as a team, him and me. We's gonna be the best fisher people and the best salvagers on the whole of the inland sea one day.'
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 bestselling author of How to Bee and The Dog Runner.
'It's one of them days when everything is off. A hot sweaty night in Rusty Bus means we kids is all grouchy-tired. Me and my best friend, Jaguar, is trying to cool down by taking turns at dipping in the sea pool. Him standing on the sea wall made from car frames and rocks on lookout for crocs, me swimming, then we'll swap places. We's always doing things as a team, him and me. We's gonna be the best fisher people and the best salvagers on the whole of the inland sea one day.'
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 bestselling author of How to Bee and The Dog Runner.
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Publisher
Allen & UnwinYear
2020eBook ISBN
9781760874841Edition
0Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- THIS OFF DAY
- EVERYTHING IS CHANGED
- TECH BURNS
- HOW LUCKY I AM
- ANGRY SPOON-STIRRING
- NOT DOING STUFF
- NEW CLEAR
- JACOB’S REACH
- LIVING GENTLE LIVES
- SUPER JELLY
- SMELLS FISHY
- I’M A SEABIRD
- MY LUCKY FLOOR
- SILVER WATER
- TROUBLE?
- BENCHTOP SKIN
- ONE SIBLING LEFT
- BUD OF AN IDEA
- PART ONE
- PART TWO
- LIKE A TICK
- SINKHOLE!
- A NEW PLAN
- GIVEAWAY FISH
- WHAT’S HAPPENING?
- IT WAS ME!
- THE OTHER CRIME
- THE BRAVEST
- UNDER THE MOONLIGHT
- FIND JAG
- DOG’S ELBOW
- A CROC BY HIS TAIL
- FURTHER THAN I’VE EVER GONE
- LINES TO TAKE ME HOME
- PIRATES
- AND TRICKSTERS
- TERRIFIED TO MY BONES
- BUBBLES RISING FROM THE DEEP
- COMPLETELY EMPTY
- OLD MAMA SHARK
- THEY’RE BACK!
- VALLEY OF THE SUN
- SOME KIND OF MAGIC
- FOUND
- BACK TO LICORICE
- WE GOTTA MOVE
- HE DON’T DESERVE TO DIE
- CHASE US ACROSS THE WATER
- FALLEN IN WITH A PIRATE GIRL
- READY TO BATTLE
- A FAIR FIGHT
- THE LAST LITTLE BIT HOME
- LET’S GET HOME
- FETCH HIM BACK
- AN EXCELLENT IDEA
- OCKERY ISLANDS CUSTOMS
- GERRA’S GHOST
- A WHOLE WORLD OF SURPRISE
- ALL THREE OF US
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR