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After a rough start to life, living on the streets with his drug addicted mother, 14-year-old Josh finally finds a foster home where he feels safe. But fate has other ideas.
In the middle of the first night, the house catches fire. Afraid he will be blamed, Josh flees and the other two foster children in the house, 11-year-old Brodie and 3-year-old Jaylee, follow him.
On the run from the police who are looking for them, and out on the streets again with two younger children to protect, Josh expects life to get tough. But he doesn't expect to be held up at gunpoint by another child, threatened by a dog, and confronted by kidnappers wielding guns. Fighting to survive, they battle on trying to find a safe home again. Will fate intervene again and save them?
About the author
Australian author DIANNE (DI) BATES has published 120+ books for the education and trade markets. Some of Di's books have won national and state literary awards; others have sold overseas. Di has received Grants and Fellowships from the Literature Board of the Australia Council and has toured for the National Book Council.Di has undertaken commissioned writing for a large number of organisations and has worked on the editorial team of the NSW Department of Education School Magazine. She was co-editor of a national children's magazine, Puffinalia (Penguin Books) and editor of another national magazine, Little Ears.In 2008, Di was awarded The Lady Cutler Prize for distinguished services to children's Literature. Her latest books are 11 titles in the fictional Bushranger series (Desert Dan the Dunnyman won the KOALA children's choice book award) and Crossing the Line, short-listed for the NSW Premier's Awards and sold into Germany. More recently she has published a junior verse novel, Nobody's Boy (Celapene Press) and A Game of Keeps (Celapene Press).
