The town of Little Dismal has more than its fair share of clever animals, which is why they are now in danger. Can Rita poet, outcast and duck solve the case of the chook-napped Clara? A quacking mystery story from the award-winning author of A Clue for Clara.

Rita’s revenge. Rita’s revenge is a good read and a bit of a funny read. It is about a duck who likes to write poetry and makes pretty good poems. She has a duck family who never change what they can or can’t do, and she goes to the city and meets ducks that do like change. Poetry is not on her duck families list and to prove she is not a poet, she tries to prove she is worthy to be in the flock by trying to take revenge on a chicken and meets a few friends on the way. I recommend this book to 8 to 12 year old’s and it is a good family book to read together.

Lian Tanner has worked as a teacher, a tourist bus driver, a freelance journalist, a juggler, an editor and a professional actor. She has been dynamited while scuba diving and arrested while busking. She once spent a week in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, searching for a Japanese soldier left over from the Second World War. It took her a while to realise that all this was preparation for becoming a writer. Nowadays Lian lives by the sea in southern Tasmania.