• Age: 8 to 10
• Grade: 3 to 5

Meet Marnie McPhee, daughter, sister, aspiring astronaut, and possible Martian.

Convinced she is not like the rest of her boring family, nine-year-old Marnie McPhee decides it's time to leave Earth and take her place among the stars. But as she builds her spaceship, she realizes that maybe Earth isn't so bad after all, even if it is filled with imperfect human families. The Remarkable Flight of Marnie McPhee is a charming story of the infinite reaches of the imagination and the pleasure of dreaming.

Daniel Sarah Karasik (they/them) is a writer and social movement worker in Toronto. Their plays have been produced across North American and Germany and they are the author of five previous books: the play collection The Crossing Guard & In Full Light; the individually published plays The Remarkable Flight of Marnie McPhee and Little Death; the poetry collection Hungry; and the short story collection Faithful and Other Stories. A graduate of the Young Writers Programme at the Royal Court Theatre in London, UK, and a former Playwright-in-Residence at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre, they have been recognized with the Toronto Arts Foundation's Emerging Artist Award, the CBC Fiction Prize, and the Canadian Jewish Playwriting Award, among other honours. They are a co-founder and coordinator of the network Artists for Climate & Migrant Justice and Indigenous Sovereignty, and their political journalism appears frequently in Briarpatch Magazine.

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