Feral Kid
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Can Robbie survive alone on the streets?
Robbie, homeless, caught up in a crime he wants no part of... Iris, and old lady he mugs in a city park... Their chance meeting brings about an unlikely friendship which offers both a new future. But can life really change for the better? Society of Women Writers NSW Award for Novel 1995 Australian Violence Prevention Certificate Award 1995 Shortlisted for the Human Rights Award 1995 'This is a most powerful novel. Libby Hathorn has created a haunting picture of vulnerable and troubled youth... Highly recommended.' Reading TimeBuy now!
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- ISBN: 9780734416094
- Author: Libby Hathorn
- Pub date: 13.05.15
- RRP: $13.99
- Format: Electronic book text
Author
Libby Hathorn
Libby Hathorn is an award-winning author and poet of more than eighty books for children, young adults, and adult readers. Her recent picture book No! Never!, written with her daughter Lisa Hathorn-Jarman, won the CBCA Children's Picture Book of the Year Award, Younger Readers, 2021. Translated into several languages and adapted for both stage and screen, her work has won honours in Australia, the United States, Great Britain and Holland. She is the recipient of the ABIA Pixie O'Harris Award, 2022, and the Lady Cutler Award, 2020, for distinguished services to Australian children's literature. In 2014 she won The Alice Award, a national award given to 'a woman who has made a distinguished and long term contribution to Australian literature'. In 2017 she won the Asher Award, a peace prize, for A Soldier, a Dog and a Boy.
Libby is a keen educator who has lectured part-time at Sydney University and is devoted to being an ambassador for poetry anywhere and everywhere. She has been a National Ambassador for Reading and often acts as a judge for various literary prizes, including the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. www.libbyhathorn.comOther books by the author
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