When the Egret's pilot dies suddenly mid-flight, six teenagers, the only passengers, face a terrifying situation. Gerald has had some flying lessons, but has never flown alone and never landed a plane. Lost and afraid, they fly on as the fuel gauge drops and night closes in. If they do somehow land safely how will they find their way home? To the Wild Sky follows Ash Road and Hills End in Ivan Southall's acclaimed trilogy of novels about teenagers who must rely on their wits to survive. Ivan Southall was the first Australian to be awarded the Carnegie Medal.

Five teenagers are heading for a remote outback station for a weekend of adventuring. But when the pilot of the small plane they are travelling in suffers a sudden heart attack, the adventure becomes all too perilous. In a tale reminiscent of William Golding's Lord of the Flies (1954), the children begin to turn on each other. Can they put their differences to one side and make it back to safety?