| Description |
198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Summary: After a series of misfortunes comes to the white family whose home is built on land sacred to the Aborigines, young Jimmy, friendly with the Aborigines, takes matters into his own hands |
| Summary |
When David Brent witnesses a secret Aboriginal ceremony, he determines to find out its meaning, and discovers that the Aboriginal tribe have been harbouring a great resentment against his family, the Brents, since they first settled the tribe's sacred land in 1895 |
| Notes |
Novels in English. Australian writers, 1945-. Texts (ANB/PRECIS SIN 0000116) |
| Audience |
For children |
| Notes |
Children's Book of the Year Award, 1978 commended |
| Restricted |
Mediated access: access to First Nations materials may be restricted while an audit, reparative description and reclassification of these materials is in progress |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile fiction.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile literature.
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Australian fiction -- 20th century.
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Children's stories, Australian.
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Children's stories.
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Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Backhaus-Smith, Rex.
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| LC no. |
78305183 |
| ISBN |
037030019X |
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