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Author Thomas, Jared, author

Title Calypso summer / Jared Thomas
Published Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 2014

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Contents Intro -- Jared Thomas -- Acknowledgements -- About Black & -- Write!
Summary Calypso Summer is a story told by Calypso, a young Nukunu man, fresh out of high school in Rastafarian guise. After failing to secure employment in sports retail, his dream occupation, Calypso finds work at the Henley Beach Health Food shop where his boss pressures him to gather Aboriginal plants for natural remedies. Growing up in urban Adelaide and with little understanding of his mother's traditional background, Calypso endeavours to find the appropriate native plants. This leads him to his Nukunu family in Port Augusta and the discovery of a world steeped in cultural knowledge. The support of a sassy, smart, young Ngadjuri girl, with a passion for cricket rivalling his own, helps Calypso to reconsider his Rastafarian façade and understand how to take charge of his future
Subject Young men -- Australia -- Fiction
Teenage boys -- Australia -- Fiction
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- South Australia -- Fiction
Nukunu -- Nuguna people (L4) (SA SI54-01)
Ngadjuri -- Ngadyuri people (L5) (SA SI54-05)
Literature and stories -- Fiction.
Law enforcement -- Police conduct and attitudes.
Substance use.
Indigenous knowledge -- Health and medicine.
JUVENILE FICTION -- General.
Aboriginal Australians
Teenage boys
Young men
Adelaide (SE SA SI54-09)
Australia
South Australia
Genre/Form Young adult fiction
Young adult works
Fiction
Form Electronic book
Author OverDrive, Inc.
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