Emily Rodda
Emily Rodda is a pseudonym used by Jennifer June Rowe (born 1948). Jennifer Rowe is an Australian author, who writes adult fiction under her own name and children's fiction under the pseudonym of Emily Rodda.
Lief, Barda, and Jasmine continue their perilous quest to recover the seven lost gems of the magic belt of Deltora. Now they must begin their search for the fourth stone, which is hidden in a shimmering, barren waste and kept jealously by an unknown guardian. Separation, confusion, and strange, terrible enemies await them in the ordeal of the Shifting Sands.