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  • Published: 1 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781742745343
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

The Secret Of The Lonely Isles




Four kids on a yacht, a seafaring aunt, and a hundred-year-old mystery . . .

Jem's world has been turned upside down by a family crisis, and then it gets worse. Just when it all seems too hard, along comes Ella, Jem0's great-aunt, who's also a solo round-the-world sailor. She decides that what Jem, his sister Maddy and brother Tyler need is a sea change. But is seasickness the only thing that Jem adds to his list of woes?

What's the mystery that Ella is chasing? Why does Jem keep having strange and troubling dreams, and what could they mean? And who is stalking them all?

  • Published: 1 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781742745343
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

About the author

Joanne Van Os

Joanne van Os was born in 1955, and grew up in Melbourne. Her first book, OUTBACK HEART, is a best-selling memoir about life with her first husband, the 'Real Crocodile Dundee' Rod Ansell, mustering wild cattle and buffalo and living a 19th century lifestyle in remote parts of the Northern Territory, and his tragic end in 1999. She followed this book with three children's novels, all set in the far north of Australia and written for the 10 - 14 age group. She lives with her husband Lex Silvester on a yacht in Darwin, NT, and continues to write. Her most recent novel, THE SECRET OF THE LONELY ISLES, was published in February 2011.

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