Phillip Wade: 3 books

"It all happened when on the night of the storm, when the dogs ran away, and the parents weren't home, when the sea rose up from its bed in the bay and washed all the boats and the houses away. Then the sun peeked over the edge of the waves and caught the moon napping, so night slipped away....

Roughly a year after that tragic night when Little John Lou was swept away in his house by a tsunami, he flounders upon a mysterious island where he is imprisoned by a cunning cyclops. Join Little John in this second book of the series as he befriends the shrewd Odysseus and strives to survive the cyclops’ curse.

The transition from care into adulthood is a difficult step for any young person, but young people leaving care have a high risk of social exclusion, both in terms of material disadvantage and marginalisation. In Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood leading academics gather together...