Will the children of Oculum survive the violent, destroyed world outside the dome?

The explosions come in the night. Miranda1, Mannfred, Grannie, and the one thousand children of Oculum must flee their farm, chased by the UnRuly. But there is hope: an old friend sends word of a book that may hold the secret to their survival.

Just as they begin their journey through the wasteland, Echo1 wakes from an eighty-three-year sleep and is given a mission to find the four domes of the children of Oculum, and to find the First One, whatever the cost. (DCB)

Philippa Dowding is an award-winning author from Toronto. Her most recent book, Firefly, won the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for young people's literature — text, and her previous book, Oculum, was a finalist for the Diamond Willow Award and the Forest of Reading Silver Birch Award.