Books with author Ryan Andrews

It’s all going wrong. Keri’s Gran is dead, her Dad’s working far away. Keri and her mum are fighting. Keri wants to reach back into the family’s past; she wants to do something brave and heroic. When she and her brother find a whale washed up on the beach, that seems to be her chance. Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award, 1996. “Keri...is about an encounter with grandeur, an encounter from which one cannot emerge unchanged.” —The Horn Book Magazine.

Tom's story takes place against the background of war-torn London with it's air raids, doodlebugs, barrage balloons, blackouts and rationing. There is humour and sadness, treachery and friendship, historical fact and spooky fiction entwined in the closely woven plot of Printer's Devil "Beautifully conceived and written...especially for those who like mysteries." The School Librarian "A gripping read..." Sarah Lawson