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  • Published: 16 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241732731
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $24.00

The Starlight Rebel





A futuristic, sci-fi middle grade novel full of heart - perfect for fans of Ross Welford!

In the future, the most underestimated person on the planet may be the only one who can save it.

The year is 3897, and life on Earth is a neon dream, all flashing lights and buzzy noise – and no one remembers that behind the illuminated shell above them there's a night sky filled with stars.

As she turns 11, neurodivergent, freckled Astrifer Nova is nothing like her sporty, high-achieving twin brother, Blaze. And on the day of her Work Path Allocation ceremony which determines the course of her life, she is crushed when she gets assigned to something as boring as the sock factory.

But all is not as it seems, and as she uncovers layers of hidden truths all around her, Astrifer discovers that the world is bigger than she ever imagined – and that it’s up to her and a motley crew of new friends (including one from very far away) to challenge the status quo. Turns out, their differences may be exactly what the planet needs…

  • Published: 16 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241732731
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $24.00

About the author

Lisette Auton

Lisette Auton is a disabled writer, activist, poet, novelist, spoken-word artist, actor, film & theatre-maker and creative practitioner. She's an award-winning poet who has performed at Northern Stage, ARC, The Southbank Centre and the Sage, in pubs, in a crypt, at festivals, indoors, outdoors, on a bridge and in a launderette. The Secret of Haven Point is her debut novel.

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