Raider is a children's novel by Susan Gates, published in 1995. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal [1] and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. [2]
The novel is about Flora and Maddy's investigation of the mystery surrounding the death of a boy who fell into the sea from the Arctic Raider, a deep-sea trawler, many years before.
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