The Dog Runner
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By MacDibble, Bren
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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 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 dry, barren, and 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...
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| ISBN |
9781760523572 |
| Published AU |
4 Feb 2019 |
| Publisher |
Allen & Unwin |
| Format |
Paperback |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
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Winner of Esther Glen Junior Fiction Award 2019 (New Zealand)
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Short-listed for Carnegie Medal 2020 (Australia)
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Long-listed for Readings Children's Book Prize 2020 (Australia)
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Long-listed for Best Designed Children's Book 2020 (Australia)
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Nominated for NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2020
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Author's Bio
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 recently sold everything, and now lives and works in a bus travelling 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 Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature, and the New Zealand Book Awards Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction. Bren also writes for young adults under the name Cally Black.
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