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Pages in category "Australian young adult novels" The following 104 pages are in this category, out of 104 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Thursday's Child is young adult novel by the Australian writer Sonya Hartnett, published in 2000 by Penguin Books. Set during the 1930s Great Depression in Australia, it features a young woman Harper Flute and her family, who live in poverty. It won the annual Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel. [2]
The Thorn Birds is a 1977 novel by Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda—a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland—the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans 1915 to 1969. The novel is the best-selling book in Australian history, and has sold over 33 million copies ...
Someone Like Me won the 1998 Children's Book Council of Australia's Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers award. A review in Bookbird noted the themes of school bullying, family relationships and violence in Ireland in Someone Like Me. [2]
1982: International Board on Books for Young People (Australia): Honour Diploma for Playing Beatie Bow; 1982: Guardian Fiction Prize (UK): runner-up for Playing Beatie Bow; 1986: Young Australians' Best Book Award for picture book When the Wind Changed (illustrated by Deborah Niland) 1987: Member of the Order of Australia (AM): for services to ...
Josh is a young-adult novel by Ivan Southall, first published in 1971 by Angus & Robertson of Sydney, Australia. Southall was the first Australian to win the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. [3] Both U.K. and U.S. editions were published within the calendar ...
Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early Western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies; as such, its recognised literary tradition begins with and is linked to the broader tradition of English literature.
The book tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, an Anglican priest from Devon, England, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress, who are both traveling to Australia by ship. It explores their adventures on the large continent. They meet on a ship to Australia, where Lucinda has bought a glass factory, having long been fascinated by the ...