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Bite Flight
  • Published: 9 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761352935
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $14.99

Bite Flight




Do you dare to be scared?

Twelve-year-old Skye, a flight-sim-obsessed kid who dreams of becoming a pilot, boards a late-night flight from Sydney to Honolulu to visit her dad. But not long after takeoff, everything feels . . . off.

A few passengers look unnervingly pale, the cabin crew seem to be hiding something, and when Skye overhears whispers about the aircraft being ‘commandeered’, her stomach drops.

With her nerves spiking, she has no idea who she can trust — except a young boy her age named Nicky, who steps up to help her warn the aircraft’s captain of the imminent hijack.

But on their way to the cockpit, they walk straight into a nightmare. Every passenger in first class is slumped in their seat while vicious, hungry monsters feed on them. Skye freezes as the truth crashes over her —

There are vampires on the plane. Dozens and dozens of them, plotting a fate worse than death for the passengers. And the only person who can stop them, and safely land the aircraft, is Skye.

  • Published: 9 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761352935
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $14.99

About the author

Steve Worland

Steve Worland has worked extensively in film and television in Australia and the USA. He wrote the screenplay for the smash hit Australian family film Paper Planes with director Robert Connolly, won the ACCTA award for best original screenplay for the same film, and adapted the movie into a bestselling novel for young readers. Steve has written screenplays for Working Title, Icon Productions and The Jim Henson Company, worked in script development for James Cameron's Lightstorm and wrote Fox Searchlight's Bootmen, which won five ACCTA awards. Steve also wrote the action-comedy telemovie Hard Knox for New Line Television, episodes of the Southern Star action series Big Sky and the Saturn award-winning Farscape. He is the author of the action-adventure novels Velocity, Combustion and Quick as well as the charity joke book The Bloke-a-saurus, which he wrote with his brother, Gus.

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