A review by rebekahf
The Dog Runner by Bren MacDibble

4.0

Ella and her brother Emery are alone in a city that's starving to death. If they are going to survive, they must get away, upcountry, to find Emery's mum. But how can two kids travel such big distances across a dry, barren, and dangerous landscape? Well, when you've got five big doggos and a dry-land dogsled, the answer is you go mushing. But when Emery is injured, Ella must find a way to navigate them through rough terrain, and even rougher encounters with desperate people.

The Dog Runner is a cracking read. Author Bren MacDibble sets a blistering pace, with plenty of action to grip the reader from the very first page. It follows the children’s tense, and at times a little bit scary, journey across a dystopian Australia desert as they try desperately to get to Emery’s mum’s house.

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