Kate and Ruby live in the High Country in Victoria. They’re both daring, quick-thinking and prepared to break the rules, and they’re both brilliant horse riders—they’d probably be great friends. But they live in different times, more than 140 years apart.

While galloping through the mountains, Kate rides headlong into a thrilling experience that transports her from 1878 to the future, where she meets Ruby. Kate and Ruby return to 1878, where Kate is secretly taking supplies to her brother Ned and the rest of the Kelly Gang, who are in hiding from the police. Together the girls work to confuse the police and keep the gang from being found and arrested. But the looming disaster makes things less clear-cut for Ruby.

They’re about to have the ride of their lives!

Outlaw Girls is an exciting, fast-paced time-slip novel, narrated by both Ruby and Kate, about family, friendship, loyalty and betrayal, the complexity of right and wrong, and working out what matters most.

Praise for Outlaw Girls

A thrilling ride of danger and friendship across time, Outlaw Girls is an adventure of courage and loyalty from two favourite authors. I wanted to gallop away with Kate and Ruby.’

Kate Constable

‘Emily Gale and Nova Weetman deliver again with <>Outlaw Girls…This time-slip story is riveting upper-middle-grade historical fiction like you’ve never seen it before.’

Books+Publishing

‘Whip-smart.’

Australian Women's Weekly on Elsewhere Girls

‘A charming, eye-opening exploration of gender restrictions and self-determination.’

Kirkus Reviews (US) on Elsewhere Girls

‘4.5 stars. A great history book [with] several underlying themes which deal with things such as honesty, making the right choice (not the easy choice), and choosing friends wisely. Ruby has many flaws and we see her struggle with growing up. There could be much discussion in a classroom setting around these themes…Their characters are well rounded and the imagery makes it easy to imagine life in the high country of Victoria in the 1880s…Young people who love horses will particularly enjoy Outlaw Girls.’

GLAM Adelaide

‘A compelling read where modern-day teenage angst and privilege meets poverty and injustice in colonial Australia…Ingeniously [tells] the story of the Kelly women and how they supported their brothers and kept the family together.’

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Outlaw Girls is the new book by Emily Gale and Nova Weetman, authors of Elsewhere Girls.