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Author Herrick, Steven, 1958- author

Title A place like this / Steven Herrick
Published St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Cover Page ; Author biography ; Also by ; Title Page ; Dedication ; Contents ; Go ; This quiet land; Screwed ; A place like this ; Weird ; A young orchard ; A full tank ; Warm ; Imprint Page
Summary AA special reissue of a bestselling Australian classic from award-winning author Steven Herrick. Jack and Annabel have been dating for two years. With high school over they're about to start university ₆ until Jack decides to chuck it all in. I think you and Annabel should get out of hereas fast as possible. Have a year doing anythingyou want. My going-away present is enough moneyto buy a car ₆ a cheap old one, okay? You'll have towork somewhere to buy the petrol, and to keep going. But go. No destination in mind, Jack and Annabel leave town and discover themselves in a place they never knew existed. An inspiring verse novel about the pursuit of dreams and the realities of life, A Place Like This was shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers and New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and commended in the Victorian Premier's Literary Award Sheaffer Pen Prize for Young Adult Fiction.'A story as crisp and fresh as an apple, as sweet and sharp as life itself.' - Australian Book Review
Analysis Australian
Audience For young adults
Subject Families -- Juvenile fiction
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
Teenage pregnancy -- Juvenile fiction
FICTION -- General.
Families
Friendship
Teenage pregnancy
Genre/Form Novels in verse
Bildungsromans
Fiction
Juvenile works
Bildungsromans.
Novels in verse.
Romans en vers.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780702258954
0702258954
9780702258961
0702258962