Jodie

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Jodie never wanted to come on the residential trip to the field centre. A loner at school, she's forced into adormitory with other girls from her class who don't understand her and talk about her behind her back. Eventhough they're not trying to be mean, Jodie feels excluded and miserable, and eventually escapes out onto thesalt marshes in search of a little dog she can hear barking in the distance. But the salt marshes are dangerous
and Jodie gets trapped by the incoming tide. Stuck in the sucking mud, will anyone even notice that she's gone
And where is the little dog that keeps barking so mournfully ...

Reviews

"Superbly chilling, brilliantly satisfying. A masterpiece of a modern-day ghost story." -- Emma Carroll

"[Hilary McKay] has an unerring sense of children's dialogue and behaviour ... A ghost story with a difference" -- Berlie Doherty

"A hugely satisfying story about real loneliness, real friendship and a real ghost ... Beautifully unpredictable." -- Lissa Evans

Author Bio

Hilary McKay won The Guardian Children's Fiction Award for her first novel, The Exiles and its sequel, The Exiles At Home was the winner of the prestigious Smarties Book Prize. Her success has continued with Saffy's Angel, which won the Children's Whitbread Prize and was selected for the inaugural Booked Up list. Most recently, the acclaimed Binny for Short was longlisted for the 2014 Carnegie Medal.