Catch a falling star /
Published by : Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd, (Newtown, NSW :) , 2019 Physical details: 236 pages ; 20 cm.Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Junior collection | MACK | Available | 061988 |
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It's 1979 and the sky is falling. Skylab, that is. Somewhere high above Frankie Avery, one of the world's first space stations is tumbling to Earth. And rushing back with it are old memories. Things twelve-year-old Frankie thought she'd forgotten. Things her mum won't talk about, and which her little brother Newt never knew. Only did he? Does he? Because as Skylab circles closer, Newt starts acting strangely. And while the world watches the sky, Frankie keeps her own eyes on Newt. Because if anyone's going to keep him safe, it's her. It always has been. But maybe this is something bigger than splinters and spiders and sleepwalking. Maybe a space station isn't the only thing heading straight for calamity.
For secondary school age.
Children's Book Council of Australia younger readers shortlisted book, 2020.