Icebreaker

Resumen del libro

An outcast girl and a pair of mechanical rats who live on a ship save a mysterious boy in this first book of a middle grade trilogy.
Twelve-year-old Petrel is an outcast, living on an ancient icebreaker that has been following the same ocean course for three hundred years. The ship's crew has forgotten its original purpose and has broken into three warring tribes. Everyone has a tribe except Petrel, whose parents were thrown overboard for alleged crimes. She has survived by living in the dark corners of the ship and speaking to no one except two large rats, Mister Smoke and Mrs. Slink.

When a boy is discovered on a frozen iceberg, the crew is immediately on alert. Petrel hides him on board, hoping he'll be her friend. What she doesn't know is that the ship guards a secret, held down deep in its belly, and the boy has been sent to seek and destroy it.

Biografía del autor

Es dramaturga y escritora de libros para niños. Ha trabajado como profesora en Australia y Papúa Nueva Guinea, y también como conductora de un autobús turístico, periodista autónoma, malabarista, técnico de artes comunitarias, editora y actriz profesional. Le llevó un tiempo darse cuenta de que todos aquellos empleos eran en realidad un entrenamiento para convertirse en escritora. En la actualidad vive junto a la playa, al sur de Tasmania, con un gatito atigrado y un montón de simpáticos perros en el vecindario. Aún no ha dominado el arte del mimetismo por imitación del vacío, pero se le da bastante bien el camuflaje.