The Sugarcane Kids and the Empty Cage

✍ Scribed by Charlie Archbold

• Book ID: 115327494
• Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781923059009

✦ Synopsis

When you least expect it something surprising will spring out and shock you. Like when you study your dead bug shelf and there's a live huntsman spider sitting on it. Or when your sausage dog turns up on a secret mission...'It's Gloria,' I say. You can feel the shock hover over the fort like a sulphur gas cloud over a volcano.

Gloria the talkative eclectus parrot is missing from the animal sanctuary, and Anna the massive 'not an anaconda' Australian scrub python has vanished from her enclosure at the library. Have they escaped? Or were they stolen?

When Andy and the Sugarcane Kids hear about an illegal native-animal trade, they know they have to investigate—and fast! Gloria and Anna are not only much-loved residents of their small coastal town in far north Queensland, but they also have very particular care needs—their lives could be in danger!

Andy, Eli, Harvey and the twins, Bernie and Fletch, along with Andy's trusty sausage dog Washington, have...