Title Sparrow / Scot Gardner

Published Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2017 ©2017

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB CRC	JUNIOR FICTION Gar/Spa		AVAILABLE
W'BOOL CRC	JUNIOR FICTION Gar/Spa		AVAILABLE
W'PONDS CRC	JUNIOR FICTION Gar/Spa		AVAILABLE

Description 212 pages ; 20 cm regular print Summary 12 - 16 years old One, two, three, breathe. When a juvenile detention exercise off the coast of the Kimberley goes wrong, sixteen-year-old Sparrow must swim to shore. There are sharks and crocs around him but the monsters he fears most live in the dark spaces in his mind. He's swimming away from his prison life and towards a desolate, rocky coastland and the hollow promise of freedom. He'll eat or be eaten, kill or be killed. With no voice, no family and the odds stacked against him, Sparrow has nothing left to lose. But to survive he'll need something more potent than desperation, something more dangerous than a makeshift knife Analysis Australian Notes "From city streets to a cave in the wilderness" --Cover Audience For young adults Subject Australian fiction. Escaped prisoners -- Fiction. Escaped prisoners -- Juvenile fiction. Survival -- Fiction. Survival -- Juvenile fiction. Escaped prisoners -- Young adult fiction Survival -- Young adult fiction Young adult fiction. Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction. Youth -- Fiction. Genre/Form Fiction. ISBN 9781760294472 (paperback)

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