We didn't think it through / Lonesborough, Gary.
Publication details: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin Childrens Books, 2023.Description: 288 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781760526931
- We did not think it through
- Stories for children and teenagers
- Youth fiction
- Racism -- Teen fiction
- Race relations
- Friendship -- Teen fiction
- Bullying -- Teen fiction
- Aboriginal Australians -- Teen fiction
- Boys
- Families
- Identity (Psychology) in adolescence
- Secrecy
- Teenagers
- Aboriginal Australians
- Juvenile delinquents -- Juvenile fiction
- Racism -- Juvenile fiction
- Literature and stories - Authors - Fiction
- Teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Literature and stories - Juvenile
- Young adult fiction, Australian
- Friendship -- Young adult fiction
- Bullying -- Young adult fiction
- Racism -- Young adult fiction
- Juvenile detention -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
- Secrecy -- Juvenile fiction
- Identity (Psychology) in adolescence -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Juvenile fiction
- Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile fiction
- Boys -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenage boys -- Fiction
- Racism -- Fiction
- Juvenile delinquents -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
- Australian fiction -- Aboriginal Australian authors
- Australia
- Australia -- Race relations -- Teen fiction
- A823.4 23/eng/20230712
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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New book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Young Adult | LON | Available | 072840 |
"The thought comes to me: This is how I die. Dally is going to lose control and crash us into a pole or a house and we will be killed on impact. The justice system characterises Jamie Langton as a 'danger to society', but he's just an Aboriginal kid, trying to find his way through adolescence. Jamie lives in Dalton's Bay with Aunty Dawn and Uncle Bobby. He spends his downtime hanging out with his mates, Dally and Lenny. Mark Cassidy and his white mates - the Footy Heads - take every opportunity they can to bully Jamie and his friends. On Lenny's last night in town before moving to Sydney, after another episode of racist harassment, Jamie, Dally and Lenny decide to retaliate by vandalising Mark Cassidy's car. And when they discover the keys are in the ignition... Dally changes the plan. Soon they are all in Mark Cassidy's stolen car cruising through town, aiming to take it for a quick spin, then dump it. But it's a bad plan. And as a consequence, Jamie ends up in the youth justice system where he must find a way to mend his relationships with himself, his friends, his family and his future."--Back cover.
Ages 14-18.