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When Tobias Richard Vandevelde wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the night before his horrified mother tells him that he was found unconscious At Featherdale Wildlife Park In a dingo pen He assumes that his two best friends are somehow responsible until the mysterious Reuben turns up claiming that Toby has a rare and dangerous condition Next thing he knows Toby finds himself involved with a strange bunch of sickly insomniacs who seem convinced that he needs their help Its not until hes kidnapped and imprisoned that he starts to believe themand to understand what being a paranormal monster really means
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CATHERINE JINKS was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1963. She grew up in Papua New Guinea and later spent four years studying medieval history at the University of Sydney. After working for several years in a bank, she married a Canadian journalist and lived for a short time in Nova Scotia, Canada. She is now a full-time writer, residing in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales with her husband Peter and their daughter Hannah.Catherine is a three-time winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year award, and has also won a Victorian Premier's Literature Award, the Ena Noel Award for Children's Literature, and an Aurealis Award for Science Fiction. In 2001 she was presented with a Centenary Medal for her contribution to Australian Children's Literature.
