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Desert Tracks
"What started as a small breeze blew up and up and up until a whirlwind had wrapped itself around her. Sonny and Spike, caught in the tailwinds, looked away to protect their eyes from the flying dust. When the wind had passed and they looked back, Millie was gone."
Have you ever gotten lost in a book? Entranced into the world of a mysterious old story, Millie, a Warlpiri teenager, is sucked up by a willy willy and transported to Alice Springs in 1924. Here she meets a crew of oddly familiar young people, Sonny, Beryl and Spike. As the group continue to find each other in time, they realise the Alice Springs of the past and the future are not as different as they seem...
Desert Tracks is a time travelling novel about young people in central Australia, the historical legacy of racist policies and the relationship between history and the present.
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Linda Wells
Linda Wells is of white settler descent and proud to be Marly’s mother. She is a teacher and writer. Linda has lived in Central Australia for many years and worked as a...
