Straggler's Reef

by Elaine Forrestal

While Karri reads an account of a shipwreck and a lost treasure at Straggler's Reef in Western Australia in her family history she discovers a girl named Caroline who thinks the year is 1840, and stands watch as her brother Jarrad takes Caroline diving for the treasure.While Karri reads about shipwreck and treasure at Straggler's Reef in her family history she sees a girl named Caroline who thinks it is 1840, and her brother Jarrad and Caroline dive for the treasure.

120 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1999

About the author

Elaine Forrestal is a full-time writer who lives and works in Scarborough, Western Australia. She grew up in the Wheatbelt but now travels all over the world, and has spoken at festivals and presented writing workshops in Australia, Singapore, France, Italy, and Ireland. Elaine has had novels, picture books, magazine articles and short stories published in Australia, the USA and the UK. Her novel, Someone Like Me, which won the CBCA Book of the Year Award, the WAYRBA Hoffman Award and was commended for the NASAN Book and Software Awards in the UK, has been translated into Slovenian and Italian. She has also written for children’s television. Of her 17 published fiction titles, 14 have been shortlisted for, or won, major awards.

Reviews

[Deb · Rating 3 out of 5]

Must find out more about the Lancier Wreck. I love finding unknown information in fiction books.

It is wonderful having West Australian authors that keep history alive.