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Author Winch, Tara June

Title Swallow the air / Tara June Winch
Published St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (201 pages)
Series David Unaipon Award Winners Series
David Unaipon Award Winners Series
Contents Swallow the air -- Grab -- Cloudbusting -- My bleeding palm -- Bushfire -- Leaving paradise -- To run -- Territory -- The block -- Chocolate -- Wantok -- Painted dreaming -- Mapping waterglass -- Just dust -- Cocoon -- Bila snake -- Mission -- Country -- The jacaranda tree -- Home
Summary When May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by an aunt. However their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that doesn't want them. May sets off to find her father and her Aboriginal identity
Analysis Australian fiction (Australia)
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
In English
Winner of the David Unaipon Award
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Subject Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Fiction
FICTION -- General.
FICTION -- Coming of Age.
Children, Aboriginal Australian
Literature and stories - Fiction.
Social identity - Aboriginality.
Children.
Literature and stories - Authors - Fiction.
Roman.
Englisch.
Genre/Form Domestic fiction
Fiction
Domestic fiction.
Form Electronic book
Author OverDrive, Inc.
ISBN 9780702250552
0702250554
9780702250569
0702250562
9780702250415
0702250414