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Winner in the 8-11 category of the Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children’s Books 2008

It’s a magical world if you know where to look.

For 10-year-old Morag, there’s nothing magical about the cellar of her cruel foster parents’ home. But that’s where she meets Aldiss, a talking rat, and his resourceful companion, Bertie the dodo. She jumps at the chance to run away and join them on their race against time to save their homeland from an evil warlock named Devlish, who is intent on destroying it. But first, Bertie and Aldiss will need to stock bickering long enough to free the only guide who knows where to find Devlish: Shona, a dragon who’s been turned to stone.
Together, these four friends begin their journey to a mysterious dark island beyond the horizon, where danger and glory await - along with clues to the disappearance of Morag’s parents, whose destiny seems somehow linked to her own…

Terrifying, touching and funny, DarkIsle is a vivid and fast-paced novel of captivating originality.

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Morag wondered just what she had got herself into.
It had seemed like a good idea to leave Jermy and Moira and join Bertie and Aldiss on their quest, but now she wasn’t so sure. She really had no idea what to expect and this realisation made her a little uncomfortable, and she began to feel a tiny bit scared.

It was starting to dawn on her that she may have permanently left behind everything safe and understandable for a world full of talking animals and strange dark magic.

Suddenly she was afraid of the dangers she could face.