Warming Demon — Camille Picott

In a world devastated by massive climate change, the Chinese government holds the key to terraforming distant planets. A handful of wealthy and academically gifted Chinese citizens are selected to journey by spacecraft and colonize a new world.

Humankind envies those chosen for the voyage. But for Senya, a part Chinese, part Caucasian six-year-old from Hong Kong, life in the cramped, interstellar society is lonely and miserable. She struggles to understand her mixed race and to find a place in her new home.