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'The town of Spindrift is home to the Orphanage School where Finlay lives. Just outside town is the painfully posh Brathelthwaite Boarding School, home to Honey Bee. When the two schools compete at the Spindrift Tournament, stakes are high, tensions are higher, and some people are out to win at any cost. And then Whispering Wars break out, and Spindrift is thrust onto the front lines. Children are being stolen. Witches, sirens and a deadly magical flu invade the town. Finlay, Honey Bee and their friends must join forces to outwit the encroaching forces of darkness and turn the tide of the war. But how can one bickering troupe outwit the insidious power of the Whisperers? And who are the two mysterious figures watching them from the shadows?'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Other Formats
- Also dyslexic edition
- Large print.
Awards
- 2019 winner Queensland Literary Awards — Griffith University Children’s Book Award
- 2019 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Younger Readers
- 2019 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Younger Readers
- 2018 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Children's Division