The Loblolly Boy

By James Norcliffe
Longacre Press 2009
ISBN 9781877460258
Paperback $19.99

Red lives in an awful orphanage, surrounded by bullies when he meets a strange boy who offers to teach him to fly, and thus Red is transferred into the body of the loblolly boy. Red is excited to find he’s invisible and can fly, but soon realises he is now cut off from the real world, and discovers that perhaps being himself wasn’t so bad after all. A fabulous magical adventure.

Nine to 14 years.