Author(s): CATE WHITTLE

Middle Readers

The stars linked them through space and even through time. Those same stars had looked down on all the people that had come before her and would still twinkle when she was as old as Libby and maybe even if she had great-grandchildren of her own. Wren is a Wild Child who has been brought up on the mountain by Old Man, learning everything he knows from nature, while Hannah has always lived in the city. When their paths collide, a secret friendship brings a family full circle, linking the past to the present and the old with the new. Starberries and Kee is solar punk climate-fiction told with positivity and hope. It confirms that in the face of crisis, it is community and compassion that defines us, connecting us to the future we choose to create. AUTHOR: Cate Whittle writes fantasy and adventure fiction for children and young adults and has published six books and has three more on the way. She writes about relationships and rediscovery (and dragons and magical worlds), seeking to empower her young readers to become problem-solvers and to see their world in a positive light. Fascinated by the natural world, Cate is fortunate to live on a bush block in a beautiful rural valley near the nation's capital. Cate is the author of the Trouble junior fiction series about a girl and her troublesome dragon, published by Omnibus Scholastic, and two middle grade magical realism adventures, Wyrd and Emergency Rescue Angel, with the same publisher. Trouble and the New Kid (2017) was shortlisted in the CBCA Book of the Year Awards for that year. Cate also has two books coming out in the next couple of years with Scholastic Australia, Millie, The Littlest Puppy, and Millie and Miss Sparrow's School of Dance. SELLING POINTS: . Futuristic SOLARPUNK - a world where humanity solves the climate crisis . An engaging and possible real world where solutions are community driven . Seasoned well known author with CBA shortlisting, and other releases to follow