Melt

A breathless adventure story of courage and survival in a warming climate

by Ele Fountain

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Pub Date 6 Jun 2023 | Archive Date 18 Feb 2021

Pushkin Press | Pushkin Children's Books

Children's Fiction

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Description

A breathless adventure story of courage and survival in a warming climate, from the multi-award-winning author of Refugee 87

Yutu lives in a remote Arctic village with his elderly grandmother. Their traditional way of life is threatened by the changing snow and ice, which melts faster every year.

Bea is trying to adapt to yet another new school. Worse still, her father's new job takes up any spare time, and his behaviour has become odd and secretive. On a trip she hopes will fix things, their fates take a drastic turn and Bea's life becomes entwined with Yutu's in a way she could never have imagined.

Together, they become locked in a desperate race for survival.

Advance Praise

Praise for Ele Fountain:

'Fountain writes with verisimilitude and verve. Novels are works of imagination and this book's compassion overrides any questions about the "right to write" - Observer

'[Lost] will arouse compassion for society's lost, reminding readers how small the difference may be between them and us' - Sunday Times

'Full of tension, fear, heartbreak and hope, [Boy 87] conveys both the bitterness of having family, home and identity stolen away piecemeal, and a courageous determination to survive' - Guardian

'Exceptional... vivid, convincing and empathetic... [Boy 87] grips us with the need to know how the heart-stopping events will turn out' - The Times, Children's Book of the Week

Praise for Ele Fountain:

'Fountain writes with verisimilitude and verve. Novels are works of imagination and this book's compassion overrides any questions about the "right to write" - Observer

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