Shannon Doleski

Mary Murphy feels like she's drowning. Her violent father is home from prison, and the social worker is suspicious of her new bruises. An aunt she's never met keeps calling. And if she can't get a good grade on her science project, she'll fail her favourite class. But Mary doesn't want to be a victim anymore. She has a plan:...

It's fourteen-year-old Gabe Sweeney's day to check for survivors... Two years after a global pandemic, twenty survivors (most of them children) have relocated from their coastal Maine island, full of sad memories, to a mansion on a small neighbouring island where they have school and farm chores. When Gabe and his dog, Mud, find Relle Douglas alone in the woods...

Inspired by Joan of Arc, a girl builds and pilots a submarine to prove just what girls can do in this masterful middle-grade debut. Mary Murphy feels like she's drowning. Her violent father is home from prison, and the social worker is suspicious of her new bruises. An aunt she's never met keeps calling. And if she can't get a...