"Lightning Chase Me Home has all my favourite things: storms,
islands, myths, and family. Amber Lee Dodd writes with tenderness
and thunder, and her storytelling is a bolt of brilliance." Kiran
Millwood Hargrave
Amelia Hester McLeod is named after two of her mum's favourite
explorers. Two amazing, fearless, awesome women: Amelia Earhart
and Lady Hester Stanhope. But Amelia herself doesn't always feel
very brave or very bright. She lives on a windblown island in a
creaky old house right beneath the North Star. Her dad is sad and
silent since her mum left them, and her absent-minded grandpa suddenly
seems convinced something strange is about to happen to her.
When Amelia makes a birthday wish to be reunited with her missing
mum, a wild magic is stirred from the sea...
A novel of courage and strength, packed full of adventure
and heroics but also with warmth and heart. "Adventure, mystery and
a zap of magic - this is a warm-hearted, engaging story with a
heroine you'll love" Robin Stevens
Kids will love this hilarious fairy tale adventure packed with clever twists, familiar characters and page-turning fun.
The second book in a fabulous new magical, middle-grade series filled with adventure, wonder and wildness,
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Amber Lee Dodd is a writer and playwright whose work has been performed around the country and published internationally. Amber drew on extensive experience working with families dealing with disabilities to write WE ARE GIANTS. She says: This experience led me to writing characters the children wanted but scarcely appear in children's fiction: disa
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