Flying Blind

Description

In Flying Blind, musical 15-year-old Essie is missing her dad; her friend at school is treating her strangely and a new boy with an army of siblings moves into their coastal town from the Outback. If this isn't enough to deal with, a junior lifesaver sweeps her out of the sea when she's hightailing it to the shore after sighting a fin. It was a dolphin after all, so she wasn't really in trouble.Does that mean he likes her? Sometimes searching for significance and trying to fit in will lead to blind loyalties before we can recognise our true friends.

Rosanne Hawke is a SA author of 30 books for young people. She has been a teacher, a lecturer in creative writing at Tabor Adelaide, and worked with a mission agency in Pakistan & UAE. Her books explore cultural and social issues, Cornish folklore, history, mystery, family and faith. She often writes of displacement, belonging and reconciliation and tells stories of children unheard. Taj and the Great Camel Trek won the Adelaide Festival Award for Children's Literature and was highly commended in the 2012 Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Rosanne is the recipient of the Nance Donkin Award for a woman author who writes for children. She writes in an underground room near Kapunda.