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Riding with Thunderbolt

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Riding with Thunderbolt

By Allan Baillie About

When Ben Cross runs away from his brutal uncle, he is looking for adventure. But he finds much more than that when he joins the bushranger Thunderbolt and becomes the cockatoo-or lookout-for the bushranger’s gang. In between raiding cattle stations, inns, stores and mail coaches, Ben befriends Thunderbolt’s wife, Mary Ann, helping in her endless hunt for food and hiding places in the wilderness. But at the end of a year of running from the law, of dramatic rescue and desperate shootouts, both Ben and Thunderbolt know they must give up the bushranging life. If they can…

AuthorAllan Baillie About
Type Of BookAustralian Novel
SeriesMy Australian Story
FormatPaperback
ISBN9781741699104
Published9/05/2013
Price Per CopyRRP $16.99
1–9 copies$15.29
10–19 copies$14.44
20+ copies$13.59
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Allan Baillie

Allan Baillie is an internationally published author and one of Australia’s most successful and popular writers for children of all ages. He was born in Scotland in 1943 and has lived in Australia since he was seven years old. On leaving school he worked as a journalist and travelled extensively. He is the author of many highly acclaimed novels and a number of very successful picture books, including the award-winning Drac and the Gremlin. Apart from Little Brother, some of his most successful titles are Songman (winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award – Children’s Books) and The China Coin (winner of the Australian Multicultural Children’s Literature Award). Allan’s books have been translated into many languages including German, Dutch, French, Swedish and Spanish. His most recent book with Puffin, Treasure Hunters, was set on a fictional Indonesian island in political turmoil. Treasure Hunters was published in 2002 and was a CBC Notable Book. His short story collection for young adults, A Taste of Cockroach, was published in May 2005 and was very well received.

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