Dr Karen Hughes is the author of the five-book Kalika Magic series. She grew up on a 6,000-acre wheat and cattle station on the Liverpool Plains, climbing trees, paddling in the creek and reading her way through Narnia, Middle Earth and Earthsea. Her first school was a bush primary with six pupils. At twelve she went to boarding school, where her homesickness told her something the teachers couldn't—the most important things in the world were her family and the land ...
The spellbinding fantasy adventure series—now on the Premier's Reading Challenge!
Enter the wild and mystical world of the Kalika people, where ancient magic pulses through the land, forgotten legends spring to life, and three brave heroes must uncover their destiny.
Kai, Indie and Nima, three teens blessed with elemental powers, embark on a desperate quest across magical lands to stop a powerful sorceress—their own kin—from destroying the world. Facing temperamental nature spirits, mythical animal companions, and their own inner demons, they must master their growing abilities and unravel a tragic family history to restore balance before all is lost to darkness and revenge.
The spellbinding fantasy adventure series—now on the Premier's Reading Challenge!
Two hundred years ago, Kaosha the Seeing Tree gave a warning. Dark times were coming to Gort, and only the courage of her children would save the land.
Nobody told Indie. She's grown up safe on a hidden island, raised by an aunt who knows more than she's saying. Then a boy named Kai arrives with a quest only Indie can complete, and everything she's been protected from comes looking for her.
The journey runs through five books: a shaman who might guide them or might be the reason they never come back, water spirits driven mad by grief, a desert that swallowed an entire people, and a living volcano where an ancient spell is draining children's souls. The old magic is real. It remembers. And it's been waiting for them.
"A wonderful addition to children's fantasy fiction."
"An engrossing tale of magic and mystery."
"I couldn't put it down."