Jealousy divides a primitive tribe. When the final split occurs, the two new communities find they are two small to be self-sufficient. However, it is the children who arrange a reconciliation. The author won the Federation's Children's Book Award for "Brother in the Land" and "Room 13".
Robert Swindells left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer.
RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.
