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Somewhere Around the Corner

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Somewhere Around the Corner

Just shut your eyes and picture yourself walking around the corner. That’s what my friend told me. Somewhere around the corner and you’ll be safe. The demonstration was wild, out of control. Barbara was scared. She saw the policeman running towards her. She needed to escape. She closed her eyes and did precisely that: she walked somewhere around the corner…into another demonstration…another time. Barbara was lucky she meet young Jim who took her out of this strange, frightening city to his home. It was 1932, when Australia was in the grip of the depression, and Jim lived in a shantytown…But Barbara found a true friend and a true home – somewhere safe around the corner.
Ages 12+

Type Of BookAustralian Novel
FormatPaperback
ISBN9780207183591
Price Per CopyRRP $17.99
1–9 copies$16.19
10–19 copies$15.29
20+ copies$14.39
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Jackie French

Jackie French is a full-time writer who lives in rural NSW. She writes columns in the print media, and sometimes presents on radio and on Burke’s Backyard. Her books for children include Rain Stones, shortlisted for the CBC Children’s Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers, 1991; Walking the Boundaries, a Notable Book in the CBC Awards, 1994; and Somewhere Around the Corner, an Honour Book in the CBC Awards, 1995. In 2000, Hitler’s Daughter won the CBC Younger Readers Award and the WOW! Award in the UK in 2001. How to Guzzle Your Garden was also shortlisted for the 2000 CBC Eve Pownall Award for Information. Most recently, Jackie won the 2002 ACT Book of the Year Award for In the Blood; her successful picture book Diary of a Wombat was named an Honour book in the 2003 CBC Awards and also won the 2003 Nielsen Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award.

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