By the River

Steven Herrick
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Format: Paperback - B format
Pages: 240
Price: AUD $17.95 inc. GST

A memorable YA novel about the tough and tender sides of growing up in a small country town. Fourteen-year-old Harry has a knack for wriggling out of trouble, but escaping the constraints and memories that keep him trapped is not so easy, until it's a matter of life or death.

Description

The big river rolls past our town, takes a slow look and rolls away.



Life for Harry means swimming in Pearce Swamp, eating chunks of watermelon with his brother and his dad, surviving schoolyard battles, and racing through butterflies in Cowpers Paddock. In his town there's Linda, who brings him the sweetest-ever orange cake, and Johnny, whose lightning fists draw blood in a blur, and there's a mystery that Harry needs to solve before he can find a way out

By the river is about the feeling the undercurrents, finding solid ground and knowing when to make a leap.



Steven Herrick writes straight from the heart.

Awards

Winner of numerous awards including a NSW Premier's Literary Award, the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award and as a CBC honour book. It has also featured on the Outstanding International Books 2007 List of USBBY and the CBC.*

About Steven Herrick
Steven Herrick was born in Brisbane, the youngest of seven children. At school his favourite subject was soccer, and he dreamed of football glory while he worked at various jobs, including fruit picking. Now Steven writes for children and teenagers and visits many schools each year. He loves talking to the students and their teachers about poetry, and soccer.

Steven lives in the Blue Mountains with his wife and two sons.

ISBN: 9781741143577
Australian Pub.: August 2004
Edition: 1
Publisher: ALLEN & UNWIN
Imprint: A & U CHILDREN
Subject: Young adult fiction
Edition Number: 1
Suitable for ages: 12-18
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