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Author Brinsmead-Hungerford, Hesba, author

Title Isle of the sea horse / H. F. Brinsmead ; illustrated by Peter Farmer
Published London : Oxford University Press, 1969

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 MELB SPCBC  819 Brinsm Hes/Iot  LIB USE ONLY
Description 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
regular print
Series Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books. ANL
Summary SUMMARY: Five troubled people - Emma, George, Shem, Raquel and Mrs. Mulvaney - shipwrecked on an uncharted island on the Great Barrier Reef help each other resolve their emotional conflicts. All decide they wish to be rescued, except Emma, who blames herself for her mother's death, and has become fiercely protective of the last of a herd of rare horses which she found on the island. For all five castaways the island provides an escape from reality, for each has a reason for not wanting to return to the mainland
Notes For children
Audience For 10-14 year old children
Notes Awarded the Elizabethan's Gold Medal for Fiction, 1969
Subject Adventure stories.
Conflict (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction.
Horses -- Juvenile fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Rare animals -- Juvenile fiction.
Shipwreck survival -- Juvenile fiction.
Shipwrecks -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction.
Shipwrecks -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Shipwrecks -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Shipwreck survival -- Fiction.
Survival at sea -- Fiction
Airplane crash survival -- Fiction
Survival -- Juvenile fiction.
Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction.
SUBJECT Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056600 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056600 -- Description and travel http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056600 -- Description and travel http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author Farmer, Peter, illustrator
ISBN 0192713078