Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Lawson, Sue, 1963- author

Title Freedom ride / Sue Lawson
Published Newtown, NSW : Walker Books Australia, 2015
Newtown, NSW : Black dog books an imprint of Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd, 2015

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS CRC  Junior Fiction Law/Fri  AVAILABLE
 MELB CRC  Junior Fiction Law/Fri  AVAILABLE
 W'BOOL CRC  Junior Fiction Law/Fri  AVAILABLE
Description 367 pages ; 20 cm
regular print
Series Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year awards 2016 shortlist
Summary Robbie knows bad things happen in Walgaree. But it's nothing to do with him. That's just the way the Aborigines have always been treated. In the summer of 1965 racial tensions in the town are at boiling point, and something headed Walgaree's way will blow things apart. It's time for Robbie to take a stand. Nothing will ever be the same
Analysis All Australian Indigenous Material
Australian
Australian fiction
Notes New South Wales Premiers Reading Challenge 5-6
Audience Ages 12+
Notes Shortlisted for the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Award 2016, Older Readers
Subject University of Sydney -- Students -- Fiction.
University of Sydney -- Students -- Juvenile fiction.
University of Sydney -- Students.
University of Sydney -- Students -- Young adult fiction
University of Sydney.
Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Social conditions -- Juvenile fiction.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Young adult fiction
Australian fiction -- 21st century.
Australian fiction.
Civil rights demonstrations -- Fiction.
Civil rights demonstrations -- Australia -- Fiction.
Civil rights demonstrations -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction.
Civil rights demonstrations -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Histor -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
Civil rights demonstrations -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Juvenile fiction.
Civil rights demonstrations -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Civil rights movements -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Histor -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
Civil rights demonstrations -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 20th century -- Young adult fiction
Civil rights movements -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Civil rights movements -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 20th century -- Young adult fiction
College students Civil rights demonstrations -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
College students -- Fiction.
College students -- Travel -- Juvenile fiction.
College students -- Travel -- Fiction.
College students -- Travel -- Young adult fiction
College students -- Political activity -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Juvenile fiction.
Freedom Rides, 1965 -- Fiction
Freedom Rides, 1965 -- Juvenile fiction
Freedom ride, NSW., 1965 -- Juvenile fiction
Race discrimination -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction.
Race discrimination -- Australia -- Young adult fiction
Racism -- Fiction.
Small cities -- Fiction.
Teenage boys -- Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction.
Civil rights demonstrations -- Fiction.
College students -- Fiction.
Racism -- Fiction.
Small cities -- Fiction.
Teenage boys -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Australia -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473
Australia -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Novels.
ISBN 1925126366
9781925126365