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The Bone Sparrow / Zana Fraillon.
LIBRA PZ7.F8438 Bo 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fraillon, Zana, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Refugee families--Juvenile fiction.
- Refugee families.
- Friendship in children--Juvenile fiction.
- Friendship in children.
- Storytelling--Juvenile fiction.
- Storytelling.
- Imagination in children--Juvenile fiction.
- Imagination in children.
- Noncitizen detention centers--Juvenile fiction.
- Noncitizen detention centers.
- Refugees--Fiction.
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Storytelling--Fiction.
- Friendship.
- Refugees.
- Australia--Juvenile fiction.
- Australia.
- Australia--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 228 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles ; New York : Disney-Hyperion, 2016.
- Summary:
- Subhi is a refugee. Born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fled the violence of a distant homeland, Subhi has only ever known life behind the fences. But his world is far bigger than that -- every night, the magical Night Sea from his mother's stories brings him gifts, the faraway whales sing to him, and the birds tell their stories. And as he grows, his imagination threatens to burst beyond the limits of his containment. 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 on the other side of the wire fence and brings with her a notebook written by the mother she lost. Unable to read it herself, she relies on Subhi to unravel her family's love songs and tragedies. Subhi and Jimmie might both find comfort -- and maybe even freedom -- as their tales unfold. But not until each has been braver than ever before.
- Notes:
- 2018 Notable Social Science Trade Books for Young People
- 2017 Children's Book of the Year Award Short List (Australia)
- 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards Older Children
- ISBN:
- 9781484781517
- 1484781511
- OCLC:
- 945352983
- Publisher Number:
- 99987196905
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