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Sailmaker
Be blown away by this action-packed mystery from Rosanne Hawke - now back in print! With his criminal biological father back in jail, Joel thinks all his troubles are behind him. He's looking forward to the future with his biker foster dad, Dev. But Joel runs into trouble when he and his best friend, Mei, discover that the island lighthouse is haunted. Strange noises in the night, unexplained footprints- Joel reckons there's got to be a logical explanation. But he soon realises that solving the mystery will be far more terrifying and dangerous than a ghost. This haunting tale is the second in a trilogy for middle-reader boys, which began with The Keeper and ends with Killer Ute.
141 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 1, 2002
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About the author
Rosanne Hawke
60 books96 followersWhen little I ran around with a jotter and a pencil, pretending to write a story but not knowing how to spell any words except Dick, Dora and cat. My mother asked me to tell stories. A lot of my stories stayed in my head, as being the youngest and living in the country didn't bring many opportunities for an audience. I was born in Penola, in South Australia. We had a sheep farm until I was six, then we moved to a property in Central Queensland. I went to school at a one-teacher school in Banana, a little country town named after a bullock.
My first short story was published in the Moura State School magazine in 1967 when I was in grade 8. At 14 years, I moved back to South Australia and attended Gawler High School where I won an Arts Scholarship to complete Years 11 & 12. I started a romantic novel when I was 17 but I burnt it later.
It wasn't until I was working in the Middle East and Pakistan, teaching ESL, bringing up kids, when I started to write seriously. My kids loved the story game we played and one night after telling a story, my daughter asked me to write it down.
I have a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide and teach Creative Writing at Tabor Adelaide, South Australia, a Christian accredited tertiary institution. I have researched Cornish identity in Australian children's literature and enjoy writing about culture, faith, relationships, displacement and belonging, music and cats.
My first short story was published in the Moura State School magazine in 1967 when I was in grade 8. At 14 years, I moved back to South Australia and attended Gawler High School where I won an Arts Scholarship to complete Years 11 & 12. I started a romantic novel when I was 17 but I burnt it later.
It wasn't until I was working in the Middle East and Pakistan, teaching ESL, bringing up kids, when I started to write seriously. My kids loved the story game we played and one night after telling a story, my daughter asked me to write it down.
I have a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide and teach Creative Writing at Tabor Adelaide, South Australia, a Christian accredited tertiary institution. I have researched Cornish identity in Australian children's literature and enjoy writing about culture, faith, relationships, displacement and belonging, music and cats.
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August 13, 2017
Definitely a book for young people although I enjoyed the story and the 'messages' that were given to the reader - good manners, politeness, being nice to others, accepting other people are different for whatever reason .....
The story took the reader through all of these things, and more, and cause a number of emotions for me ... anger (at peoples' reactions when they just didn't understand, other children's meanness, the struggle of coping with what other people are saying, dealing with emotions, learning about the joy of innocent first love ....
A good book for anyone to read in my view ....
The story took the reader through all of these things, and more, and cause a number of emotions for me ... anger (at peoples' reactions when they just didn't understand, other children's meanness, the struggle of coping with what other people are saying, dealing with emotions, learning about the joy of innocent first love ....
A good book for anyone to read in my view ....
October 19, 2025
Hawke #1
Second of a trilogy, but I did not read book #1, to be fair I didn't know it was part of a trilogy, and of course nothing on the book anywhere indicates it is, because that is how publishers roll, as you know, they are about as useful as a pork chop at a bah mitzvah!
Anyway average fare, which probably would have been better had book #1 been read, and a greater appreciation of the story was allowed.
Second of a trilogy, but I did not read book #1, to be fair I didn't know it was part of a trilogy, and of course nothing on the book anywhere indicates it is, because that is how publishers roll, as you know, they are about as useful as a pork chop at a bah mitzvah!
Anyway average fare, which probably would have been better had book #1 been read, and a greater appreciation of the story was allowed.
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