Trapped and alone on the salt marshes, Jodie is troubled by a haunting presence in thiseerily atmospheric ghost story from multi-award-winning author Hilary McKay.

Jodie never wanted to come on the residential trip to the field centre. A loner at school, she's forced into adormitory with other girls from her class who don't understand her and talk about her behind her back. Even
though they're not trying to be mean, Jodie feels excluded and miserable, and eventually escapes out onto thesalt marshes in search of a little dog she can hear barking in the distance. But the salt marshes are dangerous
and Jodie gets trapped by the incoming tide. Stuck in the sucking mud, will anyone even notice that she's gone?
And where is the little dog that keeps barking so mournfully …?