TARIN OF THE MAMMOTHS: THE EXILE

For lovers of Michelle Paver’s Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series and Spirit Animals comes this exciting new Stone Age adventure series for middle readers.

Tarin longs to hunt with the rest of the men in Mammoth clan, but his crippled leg means he is feared and bullied. When he ruins the last mammoth hunt of the season, and the clan’s survival is in jepoardy, Tarin is forced to travel across savage wild lands to ask for help. When he rescues orphaned twins Kaija and Luuka and two wolf cubs from the savage Boar Clan, Tarin realises that if they are all to survive he must conquer his greatest fear – his true self – and embrace the magic that is hiding within him.

Tarin is a terrific role model of a boy with a disability, who doesn’t let it stop him and who overcomes many obstacles and learns to have faith in himself and recognise his many strengths. It’s a great adventure, strong boy and girl characters and great immersive world creation.

Growing up, JO SANDHU was sure she was going to be a Shakespearean actress or a pianist, and gained her Associate Diploma in Speech and Drama. However, on leaving school she spent a year in finland as a Rotary Exchange Student before returning to Australia and working in the banking sector in Training and Development and Human Resources. Her short stories have been highly commended in numerous competitions, including the fAW Mary Grant bruce Award for Children’s Literature, and the CyA Later Alligator Competition (brisbane) in both the Children’s and yA sections. She is a member of Queensland Writers Centre and the Society of Children’s book Writers and Illustrators.