Title So much to tell you / John Marsden

Edition 25 years of John Marsden anniversary edition Published Glebe, N.S.W. : Walter McVitty Books, 1988 ©1987

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB SPCBC	819 Marsde Joh/Smt 1988		LIB USE ONLY
MELB SPELK	819 Marsde Joh/Smt		LIB USE ONLY

Description 109 pages ; 20 cm Series NSW Premiers Reading Challenge 7-9 NSW Premiers Reading Challenge 7-9 Summary Marina, a fourteen-year-old recently transferred from a mental hospital to a boarding school, can't speak. Her muteness is a reaction to trauma; in a moment of fury at her mother, her father threw photographic acid in the car window and, instead of hitting his wife, hit his daughter's face. Severely scarred, both inside and outside, resentful of her mother and bewildered by her father's pain, anger, and now imprisonment for assault, she records her daily life tentatively in a journal assigned, but not read by, a favorite English teacher at her new school Notes For adolescents Audience For adolescents Notes Children's Book Council of Australia, Older Readers Book of the Year, 1988 Subject Boarding schools -- Juvenile fiction. Children of divorced parents -- Fiction. Children of divorced parents -- Juvenile fiction. Children of prisoners -- Juvenile fiction. Disfigured children -- Fiction. Post-traumatic stress disorder in children -- Fiction. Friendship -- Juvenile fiction. Schools -- Fiction. Victims of crimes -- Juvenile fiction. Young adult fiction. Genre/Form Fiction. ISBN 094918313X

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