The Flooded Earth - Mardi Mcconnochie

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Résumé :
-Winner of the 2019 Green Earth Book Award for Children's Fiction
-Hardcover edition has sold 6,850 since Fall 2018 publication
-Classroom reading guide for educators forthcoming
-Climate fiction is a growing category
-Speculative fiction about massive flooding is timely as readers process news about rising sea levels and increasingly frequent disasters
-On the leading edge of a trend for books about a post-flood Earth, including Disney-Hyperion's The Light at the Bottom of the World, 2019
-Explores themes of climate change, natural disaster, slavery, and refugees
-Fast-paced adventure including ever-popular elements such as pirates, sailboats, daring escapes, and children thwarting corrupt authority
-Believable and thoughtfully conceived speculative fiction in the near future with somewhat advanced technology that is still recognizable as a logical progression of today's tech
-Award-winning author
-Book one of a strong trilogy with The Castle in the Sea (2019) and The Skeleton Coast (2019)...

Biographie:
Mardi McConnochie's novels for young readers include the Green Earth Book Award-winning The Flooded Earth, The Castle in the Sea, Dangerous Games, and Melissa, Queen of Evil, which won an Aurealis Award, Australia's premiere award for speculative fiction. She is also the author of four adult novels: Coldwater, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize First Novel Award (Pacific region), The Snow Queen, Fivestar, and The Voyagers. Mardi's TV scriptwriting credits include 'Home and Away,' 'McLeod's Daughters,' 'Always Greener,' and 'Pacific Drive.' She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her partner, author James Bradley, and their two daughters.