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Author Fusillo, Archimede.

Title Sparring with shadows / Archimede Fusillo
Published Ringwood, Vic. : Penguin, 1997

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Description 219 pages ; 20 cm
Summary David Martinesi is a first-generation Italian Australian growing up in an inner-city suburb. He is fighting the shadows cast by his Italian upbringing, and this summer he is quietly waiting for change. Change comes when he is befriended by confident, street-wise Nathan. But tragedy comes too.
Audience Teenagers
Subject Assimilation (Sociology) -- Juvenile fiction.
Ethnic relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Friendship.
Gangs -- Fiction.
Gangs -- Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction.
Italian Australians
Italians -- Australia -- Fiction.
Italians -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction.
Teenage immigrants.
Teenagers -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Young adult literature, Australian.
Genre/Form Fiction.
LC no. abn97158530
ISBN 0140386564