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'A wonderful children's novel by two stellar writers featuring Shelby and Phoenix, living 100 years apart yet unexpectedly joined across time - and each make the discovery of a lifetime that has the potential to upend their worlds.
'We've been told over and over we're the generation that waits for the world to recover. We endure the heat. We endure the storms, the wrecking floods, the long droughts, the days of smoke as fire burns, coz this is what the honoured earth does when she's trying to recover.
'Shelby and her best friend Davy live quiet low-tech lives in a closed community that is made up of exactly three hundred and fifty kind, ethical people living on exactly seven hundred hectares.
'When they climb through a hole in the perimeter fence to venture into the surrounding jungle, what they find is more astonishing than anything they could have imagined.
'And when Shelby realises the terrible danger that is unfolding, it will take all of her daring and determination to ensure the past does not repeat itself.
'Intriguing, absorbing and spine-tinglingly good, The Raven's Song is a brilliant novel by two esteemed writers at the height of their powers.' (Publication summary)
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Awards
- 2023 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Premier's Prize for Writing for Children
- 2023 honour book CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Younger Readers
- 2023 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Younger Readers
- 2022 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Children's Division