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'Fourteen-year-old Colm Bell and his 11-year-old sister Lydia wake to the smell of smoke and the sound of gunfire - raiders are attacking their home. They grab their backpacks - prepacked for such an emergency - and head to the tunnel and the hills, following the escape route they have practised every day for their young lives. They don't look back.
'This is a futuristic novel set in Australia when the earth has been plundered and natural resources depleted. Society has broken down completely, and small groups of people live in suspicion, desperately hording their meagre supplies.
'Colm and Lydia are part of a generation of children who have never seen rain. As they wander through this Mad Max landscape, moving north to where they hope to meet up with their father, they hear of a great underground fire that is slowly incinerating the earth. They learn of the Wish Kin - people who are said to have the power to heal the earth at an event called the Rekindling. And they are captured by the Clan - a sinister group determined to rule the land and its people.' (Publisher's blurb)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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[Review] The Wish Kin
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , 1 August no. 65 2009; (p. 43-44)
— Review of The Wish Kin 2008 single work novel -
[Review] The Wish Kin
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 22 no. 3 2008; (p. 34)
— Review of The Wish Kin 2008 single work novel -
[Review] The Wish Kin
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 52 no. 3 2008; (p. 36)
— Review of The Wish Kin 2008 single work novel -
Joss Hedley
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 52 no. 3 2008; (p. 10 - 36) -
[Review] The Wish Kin
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 23 no. 2 2008; (p. 41)
— Review of The Wish Kin 2008 single work novel
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Preach to Their Own with Excesses
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 15 March 2008; (p. 20)
— Review of The Wish Kin 2008 single work novel -
[Review] The Wish Kin
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 23 no. 2 2008; (p. 41)
— Review of The Wish Kin 2008 single work novel -
[Review] The Wish Kin
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 52 no. 3 2008; (p. 36)
— Review of The Wish Kin 2008 single work novel -
[Review] The Wish Kin
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , 1 August no. 65 2009; (p. 43-44)
— Review of The Wish Kin 2008 single work novel -
[Review] The Wish Kin
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 22 no. 3 2008; (p. 34)
— Review of The Wish Kin 2008 single work novel -
Joss Hedley
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 52 no. 3 2008; (p. 10 - 36)