Home and Away
April 26, Dad burns the toast, yells at Toby, thanks me for cleaning the cab of the truck, kisses Mum and Toby, then he's gone. April 27, the war starts. Everyone wants a place of safety, a place to share with the people they love. What would happen if a typical Australian family... read full description below.
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| Interest Age |
10-13 years |
| Reading Age |
10-13 years |
| NBS Text |
Picture Books |
| ONIX Text |
Children/juvenile |
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| Number of Pages |
48 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 236mm
Height: 257mm
Spine: 9mm |
| Weight |
360g |
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| Dewey Code |
A823 |
| Catalogue Code |
37288 |
Description of this Book
Mum is a rehab counselor for people with alcohol problems. Grandma Raynor lives next door. Dad is a driver for Elgas. Then there s me, fifteen, into a lot of different stuff. Music, surfing, animals, tennis, swimming, computer games. And my sister, Claire, and brother Toby. We re a typical Australian family. Barbeques, footy, gardening, school, Holden Commodores Then one day things change. April 26, Dad burns the toast, yells at Toby, thanks me for cleaning the cab of the truck, kisses Mum and Toby, then he s gone April 27, the war starts May 21, the city s in ruins, blackouts nearly all the time, food is hard to find September 13, Dad s heard news of a boat. We might get out of here yet September 28, it is just after dawn. A boat from their Navy has found us. We waved and cried and cheered. But then, slowly, we realised they were shouting at us, telling us to go away September 30, we are in a huge prison, with razor wire all around us. The government says there s no room for us. The Prime Minister says that if they let us out into the community it ll just encourage other illegal immigrants. The Deputy Prime Minister says we re not genuine refugees. The Minister for Immigration says we should have gone through the proper procedures and applied to come here the prescribed way. Apparently there was a queue or a waiting list or something, and we were meant to find an Immigration Office and put our names down to be considered. I guess they re right. I feel terrible about the trouble we ve caused them.
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Awards & Reviews
| Awards |
Shortlisted for Children's Book Council of Australia Awards: Picture Book of the Year 2009.
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Author's Bio
John Marsden lives in Kerrie, Victoria. He is Australia s most popular writer of young adult fiction. His books have sold more than a million copies worldwide and he has won, or been short-listed for, every major award for young adult literature in Australia, including the Children s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year, the National Children s Book awards and numerous children s choice awards. The gripping war series, which began with TOMIORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN, has broken all sales records for young adult fiction. BURNING FOR REVENGE was awarded the Bookdata-ABA Book of the Year Award (1998). John Marsden s move into picture books has been highly acclaimed, following the release of PRAYER FOR THE 21ST CENTURY in 1997, NORTON'S HUT in 1998 and THE RABBITS, illustrated by Shaun Tan, which was named CBC Book of the Year in 1999. Matt Ottley was born in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, moving to Australia when he was eleven. After almost failing high school in Sydney, he lived the itinerant life of a stockman for some years on cattle stations in Queensland, before returning to Sydney to study fine arts and music. He is now one of Australia s most popular children s author/illustrators and has been published in several different languages around the world. Matt also works as a composer and flamenco guitarist. His most recent book, REQUIEM FOR A BEAST, was published in 2007.
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