The bone sparrow / Zana Fraillon.
Publication details: Sydney, NSW : Lothian, 2016.Description: 234 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780734417138
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Refugee children
- Liberty -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Detention of persons
- Detention of persons -- Juvenile fiction
- Freedom -- Juvenile fiction
- Detention of persons -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
- Refugee children -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
- Australia
- Australian
- A823.4 23
- Winner 2017 Readings Young Adult Book Prize.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Young Adult | FRA | Available | 065326 |
Sometimes, at night, the dirt outside turns into a beautiful ocean. As red as the sun and as deep as the sky. I lie in my bed, Queeny's feet pushing up against my cheek, and listen to the waves lapping at the tent. Subhi is a refugee. Born in an Australian permanent detention centre after his mother fled the violence of a distant homeland, life behind the fences is all he has ever known. But as he grows, his imagination gets bigger too, until it is bursting at the limits of his world. The Night Sea brings him gifts, the faraway whales sing to him, and the birds tell their stories. The most vivid story of all, however, is the one that arrives one night in the form of Jimmie, a scruffy, impatient girl who appears from the other side of the wires, and brings a notebook written by the mother she lost. Unable to read it, she relies on Subhi to unravel her own family's love songs and tragedies. Subhi and Jimmie might both find a way to freedom, as their tales unfold. But not until each of them has been braver than ever before.
Winner 2017 Readings Young Adult Book Prize.