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That stubborn seed of hope : stories / Brian Falkner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Falkner, Brian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fear--Juvenile fiction.
- Fear.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- St. Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- A collection of gripping short stories themed around fear and hope written by internationally acclaimed children's author Brian Falkner. A boy helps his sister disguise her birthmark on her first day of school. A seventeen-year-old awakens to find himself trapped in an elderly body. A teenage girl discovers her boyfriend has a life-threatening virus the day after they share their first kiss. A high school student tries to communicate to his hospitalised brother who is in a vegetative state. Brian Falkner serves up bite-sized tales of fear – fear of rejection, fear of dying, fear of disease, fear of the unknown, fear of exclusion, fear of being caught and fear of embarrassment – showing how that stubborn seed of hope hungers our darkest moments.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Author biography
- Title page
- Imprint page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- I Am Seventeen
- The Kiss
- Strawberry Lou
- Sins and Griefs
- Shooting Stars
- Smile
- Lockdown
- The Local
- Santa's Little Helper
- Stop Reading, You Die
- Author's Notes.
- Notes:
- Short stories
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 15, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 9780702259289
- 0702259284
- OCLC:
- 960042777
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