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Raised by Wolves
Tristan Bancks
  • Published: 5 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761349812
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $21.00

Raised by Wolves

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Five years have passed. Ray Silver is back. Olive wants answers. What she finds is danger.
When your dad’s a fugitive, who do you trust – him, or yourself?

Twelve-year-old Olive Silver knows how to check every room with a knife, how to survive being alone and how to keep secrets. She’s had to – ever since her dad abandoned their family after a robbery gone wrong.

But the day she spots him outside her school, everything tilts. Against all reason, Olive follows. Through rain and darkness, across railway tracks and wrecking yards, she trails him, desperate for answers. Does he love her? Or is he only back for the money?

As the night spins out of control, Olive faces a choice: protect her family or protect the father who destroyed it.

Raised by Wolves is a tense, heart-stopping thriller about loyalty, betrayal and finding out who you really are when the people you trust most let you down.
  • Published: 5 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761349812
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $21.00
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About the author

Tristan Bancks

Tristan Bancks tells stories for the page and screen. His books for kids and teens include Two Wolves, The Fall, Detention, Cop & Robber, Ginger Meggs, the Tom Weekly series and, most recently, Scar Town, a suspense-thriller that won the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year for Younger Readers. His other awards and shortlistings include a CBCA Honour Book, the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the YABBA children’s choice book awards. His next book for readers age 10+ is Raised By Wolves, out May 2026.
Tristan is an author-advocate for literacy non-profit Room to Read. He is currently working with producers to develop a number of his books for the stage and screen. He’s excited by the future of storytelling and inspiring others to create. You can find out more about Tristan’s books, play games, watch videos, join his Young Writer’s StorySchool and help him try to change the world here at tristanbancks.com

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Also by Tristan Bancks

Cop and Robber
Ginger Meggs
Scar Town
Nit Boy
Detention
Tom Weekly 6: My Life and Other Failed Experiments
The Fall
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