Across the Creek

Children in Aidan's town have mysteriously disappeared for years. When his friend Jenice disappears, Aidan goes in search of her. He crosses a forbidden creek, and with the help of a piskey named Raff, ventures into an abandoned mine. Here he discovers a strange world populated by mythical creatures who came to Australia with the first Cornish miners over 160 years earlier. Has he uncovered the secret of the missing children? And can he and Jenice escape the horrible spriggans and their fearsome dragaroo, or will they be trapped in the mines forever?

Rosanne Hawke is an award winning children's author who lives in Kapunda, South Australia. She has written over twenty-five books for young people including Kelsey and the Quest of the Porcelain Doll (a CBCA Notable Book), Wolfchild, (shortlisted for the 2004 Aurealis Awards) and Taj and the Great Camel Trek (2012 Adelaide Festival Children's Book Award). She is the recipient of the 2015 Nance Donkin Award. Rosanne is an adjunct lecturer in Creative Writing at Tabor Adelaide and is a Bard of Cornwall. For more information go to www.rosannehawke.com