Erin Downing

Siblings Ruby and Henry have an unusual kind of home life compared to their friends. Their family operates an animal sanctuary with a unique collection of full-time pet residents: a pig, a dog, the world’s bossiest cat, two silly goats, chickens, and a llama who thinks he’s a human. Not to mention, Ruby and Henry’s mum is also a vet...

Twelve-year-old Maia’s parents say she’s lucky she noticed something as early as she did. Lucky to have smelled the smoke, lucky to have pulled her sister, Amelia, out of their burning house. But is it really lucky when Amelia’s stuck in the hospital, covered in burns? And is it lucky when Maia knows it was her candle, left unattended, that...