Longlisted for the 2015 Carnegie Medal. Red asks, Will we always be together? Always, I say. Just you and me in that little boat, watching the scarlet ibis flying back to the Caroni Swamp. Scarlets used to looking after her brother, Red. Hes special - different. Every night she tells him his favourite story - about the day theyll fly far away to the Caroni Swamp in Trinidad, where thousands of birds fill the sky. But when Scarlet and Red are split up and sent to live with different foster families, Scarlet knows shes got to do whatever it takes to get her brother back ... A wonderfully moving new novel from the author of Sky Hawk and White Dolphin.