Dog Gone

A best friend is worth everything.

I darted into the cemetery and hid behind a tombstone. I hunched myself up, balancing on the balls of my feet, and peered desperately into the night, listening for whoever was out there to make another sound. It was freezing - I had trouble keeping my jaw clamped shut so my teeth didn't chatter.'

Ish's dog is gone. Vanished in a country town. Mum's on holiday, Dad's in Sydney. Ish and his bossy sister Molly are staying with Gran. There are no clues. Only something mysterious in the town's graveyard. Then a bully from the local school starts to blackmail Ish. Can things get any worse?

About The Author

Carole Poustie is an award-winning poet whose first children's novel, Dog Gone, will be launched at the 2010 Melbourne Writers Festival. She lives in Melbourne with her two teenagers, three old-age chooks, a gay dog, and a cat who can sit on command, shake hands and do forward rolls. She's never short of inspiration for her writing, her poems and prose appearing regularly in a number of literary magazines and anthologies. Currently she is working on the sequel to Dog Gone.