The Emptying

Written by Mimi Thebo & Rachel Delahaye

Publication date: April 2026
Ages: 9-12
Format: Paperback / 198 x 129 mm / 145 pages
ISBN: 9781912745487
Rights available: World
UK retail price: £9.99

The city is starving but the farms are bursting with food. Something is very wrong.

In the aftermath of a riot turned lethal, city-kid Acker goes looking for law and order. After a farm truck is attacked in the city, farmgirl Dot sets off to find answers. When the two teens meet, they find common ground and a terrifying truth about the future. Someone has to confront reality - or what’s left of it... and it looks like it may be down to them.

In this dramatic, thought provoking and prescient story, the authors lead us into a world where AI, initially created to eradicate all human error, has gone disastrously wrong and now endangers the survival of the human race.

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